slew
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5.7
- noun
- /sluː/
- Informal
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montón
- She has written a slew of articles for various magazines.
- a whole slew of
- a slew of new features
There are a slew of black generals.
- There are a slew of black generals.
- And there's just this whole slew of mindful content coming out.
- Or did this whole slew of stuff just come rolling off the tongue?
- There's like a whole slew of these man, is that it?
- Over here we have a whole slew.
- I'm taking six gramme milligrammes of rapamycin right now and then a whole slew of supplements.
- And then we brought in we brought in a whole slew of air assets, Blackhawks and everything else.
- Or they lapse into the way of the world, which is just a whole slew of individualities arranged in different ways.
Examples
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My life right now is a stressful slew of half finished projects.
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Everybody in our industry has a slew of stories.
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So it was me against a whole slew of people and just me by myself.
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And then on top of that, with that comes a whole slew of other things.
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I know you got a whole slew of them.
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So of course I tried a slew of travel bags, none of which met my needs.
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This is going to lead to a whole slew of cases and litigation.
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So the Germans went into battle against Russia with a whole slew of tanks.
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At the same time, Twitter hosted a slew of messages.
Academic text (2017) -
I've got a slew of other investors here.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large amount of something
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1.0
A large amount that is more than needed
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1.9
A heap of things put together
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1.0
A pile of things placed one on top of another
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3.2
A very large amount of something that is hard to deal with
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1.0
A large number or amount of things
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1.4
A large amount of things often in a messy pile
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7.9
A large number of similar events happening in a short time
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5.9
A large number of things or people
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2.9
A large number or amount of something
4
9.5
A large group of people or things
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1.0
A large number or amount of something
1
2.1
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
1
2.0
A large number of people or things
1
6.7
A very large amount of something, for example many things or people
1
1.0
A large number, usually more than twelve
A large number of people or things
A large amount of things, for example work, friends, or food
A very large number of people or things
A large amount of things like clothes or money
A large amount of things collected together, often in a stack
A large amount of things, like books or food
A very large amount of something, often said in a friendly or joking way
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Etymology
Slew for 'a large number' comes from an old Irish word sluagh that meant 'crowd' or 'army'. So if you say 'a slew of something', think of a big crowd, which explains why the word means 'a lot'.