sewer slide
- noun
- Informal
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- The amusement park was criticized for its sewer slide after several people got hurt.
Examples
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After seeing the cracks and poor maintenance, no one wanted to go on the sewer slide.
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We joked about the old, rusty waterslide, calling it the sewer slide because it looked so unsafe.
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The sewer slide looked terrifying!
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I never want to go on that sewer slide again.
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The amusement park was criticized for its sewer slide after several people got hurt.
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After seeing the cracks and poor maintenance, no one wanted to go on the sewer slide.
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We joked about the old, rusty waterslide, calling it the sewer slide because it looked so unsafe.
Synonyms
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1.0
A smooth sloping surface children go down for fun
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1.0
A long smooth slide with water that people ride into a pool
A sloping slide with flowing water that people go down into a pool
How Dangerous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'sewer' modifies 'slide', so a learner who knows 'sewer' (underground waste pipe) and 'slide' (an inclined surface for descending) will infer it denotes a slide located in or resembling a sewer. This compositional pattern (modifier + head noun) is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner could reasonably deduce the unpleasant/unsafe implication without prior exposure.
Etymology
Sewer slide comes from people comparing a broken water slide to a dirty sewer. The image of cracks, slime and bad smells helps show why it means 'a dangerous or poorly designed waterslide'.