slink
Other forms: slunk; slinking; slinks; slinked
When you slink, you move in a deliberately quiet and sneaky way. You might slink into your physics class, hoping the teacher won't notice how late you are.
Kids playing hide and seek will sometimes slink around the house, quietly searching for good hiding spots, and wild animals tend to slink through the woods or fields when they're stalking prey or trying to avoid becoming prey themselves. Slink comes from the Old English word slincan, "to creep or crawl," which was mostly used to describe the movements of reptiles.
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walk stealthily“I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey”type of:walkuse one's feet to advance; advance by steps
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Vocabulary lists containing slink
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