Definition of slur

• v. t. - To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
• v. t. - To disparage; to traduce.
• v. t. - To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
• v. t. - To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
• v. t. - To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.
• v. t. - To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones.
• v. t. - To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
• n. - A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo.
• n. - A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
• n. - A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato.
• n. - In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.