Definition of Slews
Noun: slews slooz
- A large number or amount
- tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, wads, oodles, gobs [N. Amer], scads [N. Amer], lashings [Brit], many, masses [Brit]
- (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
"a slew of journalists";
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch
- Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
"The motorbike slewed to the right";
- swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, cut
- Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
"the wheels slewed against the pavement";
- skid, slip, slue, slide
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