0 a sticky liquid substance that is unpleasant to touch, such as the liquid produced by fish and snails, or the greenish-brown substance found near water:
1 a smooth, sticky, liquid substance usually considered unpleasant:
Contestants are suspended above various boxes filled with creepy-crawlies and putrid slime.
I remember being covered from head to foot with all that stinky, filthy slime.
The occurrence of biofilms (slime-forming microbes) is a major problem in the sanitation and disinfection of process equipment.
Our approach was designed to enhance the removal of slime on closed surfaces in order to assess the effectiveness of sanitation in food plant.
Once on the slime trail, the gliding velocity increases.
These abandon the sporocysts when they are mature and migrate to the respiratory chamber of the mollusc where they are covered in slime.