Slime may refer to:

Biology

Slime mold Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms with a life cycle that includes a free-living single-celled stage and the formation of spores. Spores are often produced in macroscopic mul ...

, a broad term often referring to roughly six groups of Eukaryotes *

Biofilm A biofilm comprises any syntrophic consortium of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular po ...

, an aggregate of microorganisms in which cells adhere to each other and/or to a surface *

Slimy (fish) Leiognathidae, the ponyfishes, slipmouths or slimys / slimies, are a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They inhabit marine and brackish waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. They can be used in the preparation of ''bagoong' ...

, also known as the ponyfish * Snail slime, the mucus used by gastropods for locomotion * Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem (SLiME), a biotope occupied by 'slime'.

Chemistry

Gunge Gunge as it is known in the United Kingdom, or slime as it is known in the United States and most English-speaking areas of the world, is a thick, gooey, yet runny substance with a consistency somewhere between that of paint and custard. It ha ...

(UK) or Slime (US), a thick, gooey, yet runny substance used in children's TV programmes. *

Flubber (material) Flubber (named from the film '' The Absent-Minded Professor''), Glorp, Glurch, or Slime is a rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with a borate compound. Slime can be made by combining polyvinyl-acetate-based adhe ...

, a rubbery polymer commonly called slime. * Slimes, another name for

tailings In mining, tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction ( gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different to overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that ove ...

, a waste material left after the process of separation of ores

Computing

* SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, an Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp applications

Geography

* Slime, a village, population 270, near

Omiš Omiš (, Latin and it, Almissa) is a town and port in the Dalmatia region of Croatia, and is a municipality in the Split-Dalmatia County. The town is situated approximately south-east of Croatia's second largest city, Split. Its location is w ...

, Croatia

Fiction

* "Slime" (short story) (Russian: тина), a short story by Anton Chekhov * "Slime", a novelette by

Joseph Payne Brennan Joseph Payne Brennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecti ...

. Originally published in the March 1953 issue of ''Weird Tales'' * Slimey the Worm, the pet of

Oscar the Grouch Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character created by Jim Henson and Jon Stone for the PBS/ HBO children's television program ''Sesame Street''. He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can. Oscar's favorite thing is trash, as e ...

on ''Sesame Street'' * Slime (''Dragon Quest''), the mascot of the ''Dragon Quest'' console role-playing game franchise *

Slimer Slimer, originally referred to as "Onionhead" and sometimes "the Mean Green Ghost", is a character from the ''Ghostbusters'' franchise. He appears in the films '' Ghostbusters'' (1984), ''Ghostbusters II'' (1989), and the remake '' Ghostbusters' ...

, a green ghost made of slime from the film ''Ghostbusters'' * Slime, a hostile mob from ''

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before b ...

'' that splits into multiple smaller slimes when killed.

Brands

Slime (toy) Slime was a toy product manufactured by Mattel, sold in a plastic trash can and introduced in February 1976. It consisted of a non-toxic viscous, squishy and oozy green or other color material made primarily from guar gum. Different variatio ...

, a viscous, oozing green material made primarily from guar gum and sold with a plastic trash can *

Slime (brand) Slime is a publicly owned American business known for its tire sealant and other tire care products. Its headquarters are located in San Luis Obispo, California. History In 1989 on the central coast of California, Steve Cegelski began blending an ...

, a brand of tire care products

Music

Slime (band) Slime is an extreme leftwing German punk rock band founded in Hamburg in 1979. They developed upon the straightforward style of late 70's British punk to create complex song structures with layered and cryptic texts, becoming one of the defin ...

, a German punk rock band, founded in 1979 and disbanded in 1994

Other uses

* ''Slime'' (video game), a 1982 video game for Atari 8-bit family * ''Slime'' (series), a video game series unrelated to the video game from 1982