slot

noun

1. A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding into it.

   “insert tab A into slot B”

2. A period of time or position within a schedule or sequence.

   “I've booked your haircut for the 2 p.m. slot.”

   “With a strong finish he ended up in the third-ranked slot overall.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, especially, in-plural, informal)Clipping of slot machine (“a game of chance played for money using a coin slot”).

   “I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.”

4. The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.

   “The Huntsman by his slot, or breaking earth, perceaves”

   “Oh joy! the signs of life! the Deer Hath left his slot beside the way; The little Ermine now is seen White wanderer of the snow; […] And hark! the rosy-breasted bird, The Throstle of sweet song!”

   “One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.”

   “But by then Niënor had passed away like a wraith; and neither sight nor slot of her could they find, though they hunted far northward and searched for many days.”

5. A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.

   “By this time of winter the edge of the ice is rafted up in confused floes, and often reveals slots and fissures quite large enough to hold a young husky prisoner.”

   “Brian's crevasse shot also needed additional detail, so we found a small slot on a tiny glacier above the Cove.”

6. (slang)The vagina.
7. The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
8. A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.

   “The game offers four save slots.”

9. In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
10. (slang)The barrel or tube of a wave.
11. A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
12. The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
13. A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.

    “She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did.”

    “Valerie sighed with pleasure as her husband skillfully found her slot and inserted the head of his straining prick inside, then bucked its thick-stemmed length all the way up her sex-channel.”

    “According to Pro Football Focus, Simmons, listed at 6-foot-4 and 238 pounds, played at least 100 snaps at five positions — slot cornerback, edge rusher, linebacker and both safety spots — and finished with 16½ tackles for a loss, eight sacks, eight pass deflections and three interceptions.”

14. The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.

    “The slot is not a glamorous job. It hasn't been discovered by Shubert Alley or the fiction magazines. To the cub reporter, eager for by-lines and self-expression, the whole copy desk looks like a backwater.”

15. A fish that is within regulation size limits and hence can be caught and kept.
16. A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
17. A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
18. (Northern-England, Scotland)An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
19. (obsolete)A fort or castle.

    “Thou paydst for building of a slot, That wrought thine own decay.”

verb

1. To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture).
2. To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence).
3. To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
4. To put something where it belongs.

   “And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.”

5. (British, Rhodesia, slang)To kill.

   “One young soldier told me he couldn't bear to shoot the wild game in Rhodesia, but he had no trouble "slotting" floppies. "The more I kill," he said, "the better I feel. They're ruining everything for us."”

   “Two males and a female from Northern Ireland had been identified, tracked and 'slotted'.”

   “They fired into the air on automatic and I thought, here we go, all I need is for one of these rounds to come down and slot me through the head.”

6. To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.

   “I'd have to avoid getting slotted, especially as I didn't know which danger it was, but I thought I could guess.”

7. (informal)To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
8. (Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete)To bar, bolt or lock a door or window.
9. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To shut with violence; to slam.

   “to slot a door”