1 a long narrow opening, into which you put or fit sth:
to put some coins in the slot
2 a position, a time or an opportunity for sb/sth, for example in a list, a programme of events or a series of broadcasts:
He has a regular slot on the late-night programme. * Their album has occupied the Number One slot for the past six weeks. * the airport's take-off and landing slots
verb (-tt-) [+adv./prep.] to put sth into a space that is available or designed for it; to fit into such a space: [VN] He slotted a cassette into the VCR. * The bed comes in sections which can be quickly slotted together. * [V] The dishwasher slots neatly between the cupboards. * These tubes slot together like this.
IDIOMS see PLACEn.
PHRASALVERBS
slot sb/sth<->in to manage to find a position, a time or an opportunity for sb/sth:
I can slot you in between 3 and 4. * We slotted in some extra lessons before the exam.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for slot is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is slot a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, slot is tagged as noun.
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