Usually means: Impress or excel remarkably well.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word slay:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. slay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slay: Merriam-Webster
  3. slay, slay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slay: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slay, slay: Wordnik
  8. slay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Slay, slay: Wiktionary
  10. slay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slay: Dictionary.com
  14. slay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. slay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Slay (Hit the Floor), Slay (disambiguation), Slay (video game), Slay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Slay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. slay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. slay: Rhymezone
  20. Slay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. slay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. slay: FreeDictionary.org
  23. slay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. slay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slay: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slay: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slay [cambodian], slay: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See slain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder.
verb:  (transitive, literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
verb:  (transitive, by extension, hyperbolic, informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
verb:  (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
verb:  (slang) To have sex with.
noun:  (chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of sley [Reed (of a loom).]

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