subs. (old cant).—See quot.
1789. G. PARKER, Life’s Painter. A bobstick of rum SLIM, a shilling’s worth of rum.
Adj. (colloquial).—Delicate; feeble.
1877. S. O. JEWETT, Deephaven, 169. She ’s had SLIM health of late years.
Adv. (colloquial).—Resourceful; SMART (q.v.). [In provincial English SLIM = sly, cunning, awry: the popular use of the word during the South African War, 1899–1902, largely, if not wholly = mere artfulness.]
