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slinky

[sling-kee] / ˈslɪŋ ki /


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Instead of incessant strobes and Charli clad in a slinky skirt, performing solo with no choreography, Johannes proposes backup dancers, green glitter, high wires and harnesses.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

Ellie Saab's runway featured slinky trenches that were tightly belted and Givenchy's designs appeared lighter in colour with bold black buttons and buckles.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

And at Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Kazakh artist Waldemar Zimbelmann offers viewers a slinky series of self-portraits in which the artist twists, spins and transforms himself in a series of highly textured guises.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

The light from the star stretches and compresses - just like a slinky.

From Space Scoop Apr. 23, 2025

His front paws stretched like a slinky as he leaned against the cupboard, paws inches from the countertop.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

“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

Ms. Torrini reaches for a similar metaphor — “Roar in my heart” — in one of the slinkier tunes on “Tookah,” a near-samba in 5/4 meter.

From New York Times Sep. 9, 2013

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

From Washington Post Jul. 4, 2022




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