Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SLICE

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What does SLICE mean?

SLICE noun
  1. That which is thin and broad.
  2. A thin, broad piece cut off.
  3. An amount of anything.
  4. A piece of pizza.
  5. A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
  6. A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  7. A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  8. A salver, platter, or tray.
  9. A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
  10. One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  11. A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  12. A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  13. Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  14. A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  15. A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
  16. A contiguous portion of an array.
SLICE verb
  1. To cut into slices.
  2. To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
  3. To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
  4. To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
  5. To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  6. To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
  7. To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
  8. To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
SLICE adjective
  1. Having the properties of a slice knot.

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