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slinky

[sling-kee] / ˈslɪŋ ki /


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With all of the slinky silhouettes and wearable neutrals, I had a passing thought that we might be seeing the Rick Owens-ification of Coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

When this genetic slinky is tightly compressed, genes are less accessible and remain switched off.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

"We love love," she wrote, along with a selfie of herself in a slinky black Prada gown.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Forever wild, forever free … Latina foreva,” she recited from backstage, kicking off her set with the slinky reggaeton number of the same name — exalting the primordial goddess that lives inside every Latina.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

I did a slinky walk as best as I could in the heels.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

The slower, slinkier and weirder side of Prince’s output is another reference point throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Stay on That” is one of the slinkier numbers on the album, with rapidly strummed guitars and a wah-wah squawk that recalls Isaac Hayes’s “Theme From Shaft.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

The pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin is best known for TV’s “Mission: Impossible” theme, and “Danube Incident,” created for one of the show’s episodes, is slinkier music to spy to.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020

The company hinted at a slinkier, less boxy design with its Monograph concept at the New York Auto Show last spring.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2017

So the question must be asked: Are cats just like dogs but in slinkier form, eager and able to be part of the human family?

From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2015

Shout out to future “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson, who joined Journey for “Raised on Radio” and proceeded to lay down the slinkiest, sultriest, funkiest bass line the band had ever known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Jack O’Dell, the slinkiest drummer in town, is packing up his drumsticks.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022


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