slim

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
slim/slɪm/

▶adjective (slimmer, slimmest)

• 1 gracefully thin; slenderly built.

  ■ small in width and long and narrow in shape.

• 2 very small: a slim chance.

• 3 S. African crafty or unscrupulous.

▶verb (slims, slimming, slimmed) Brit. make or become thinner, especially by dieting and sometimes exercising.

■ reduce (an organization) to a smaller size to make it more efficient.

▶noun

• 1 a course or period of slimming.

• 2 (also slim disease) African term for Aids.

– derivatives
slimly adverb,
slimmer noun,
slimness noun.

– origin C17: from Low Ger. or Du. (from a base meaning ‘slanting, cross, bad’), of Gmc origin.