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

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What does SLIME mean?

SLIME noun
  1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  2. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals, such as snails or slugs.
  3. A sneaky, unethical person; a slimeball.
  4. A monster having the form of a slimy blob.
  5. Human flesh, seen disparagingly; mere human form.
  6. Jew’s slime (bitumen)
  7. Friend, homie
SLIME verb
  1. To coat with slime.
  2. To besmirch or disparage.
  3. To carve (fish), removing the offal.

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