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slut

/slət/
/slət/
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Other forms: sluts

A slut is a vulgar insult hurled at woman and it implies that she sleeps around or has sex with too many people. It is not cool to call any woman a slut.

This is a sexist word that should be used with caution or not used at all. Calling women sluts is a way of shaming them about their sex lives, and that's really no one else's business. Unfortunately, there are a lot similar words to slut, such as adulteress, hussy, whore, loose woman, strumpet, and trollop. The word is sometimes used for men, as in man-slut, which may be a sign that our ideas of sluttiness are changing.

Definitions of slut
  1. noun
    a woman adulterer
  2. noun
    a dirty untidy woman
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    type of:
    pig, slob, sloven, slovenly person
    a coarse obnoxious person
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