: saliva dribbling from the mouth
1
a
: a ship used in the slave trade
b
: a person engaged in the slave trade
2
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Verb
a dog slavering over a bone
Noun (1)
slaver dripped from the snarling dog's jaws
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Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
Just don’t become a streak-Gollum like me, slavering miserably and alone over your treasure in a dank mental cave.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Verb
One decorous young professional after another is attacked and transformed into a slavering monster, until at last all the residents converge in the heated pool.
—Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
Just don’t become a streak-Gollum like me, slavering miserably and alone over your treasure in a dank mental cave.
—John Hodgman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
Noun
At times, slavers bypassed tricks altogether, arriving under the cover of night to ambush a village and kidnap its inhabitants.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
As our protagonist makes his flight from bondage along the Mississippi River, dodging slavers, sailing alongside an unrecognizable Huck, indignities continue to accumulate, hardening James, until violent delights culminate in delightfully violent ends.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Slaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slaver. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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slaver
2 of 2 noun
slav·er
ˈslā-vər
1
: a person who traffics or holds enslaved people
2
a ship used to traffic enslaved people
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