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slurf — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • proboscis noun An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
  • trunk verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.

Senses

slurf is used for these senses in English:

  • jet bridge (aviation) An elevated corridor connecting an airport to a plane, usually enclosed and used for disembarking and embarking passengers and crew.
  • proboscis (anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
  • trunk The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.

proboscis — full definition

  1. noun An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.
  2. noun The tubular feeding and sucking organ of certain invertebrates like insects, worms and molluscs.
  3. noun The trunk of an elephant.
  4. noun A large or lengthy human nose.

trunk — full definition

  1. verb To cut something short or reduce it drastically.
  2. verb In telecoms, to carry many signals together over a shared set of lines.

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