Meaning of slyboots | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who is clever or shrewd, especially one who is stealthy, manipulative, and rather charming.

British

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Examples

“But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.”

“"Oh, you sly-boots!" says the Countess. "Guess you come after the old lady's money!"”

“You're such a slyboots, old cocky. I could kiss you.”

“Peter: All we gotta do is tell a little white lie. Just go with it. [dials phone] Is this the Grant-a-Dream Foundation? My son Chris is dying! Chris: Holy crap, no! Oh, my God! Peter: That was the lie. Chris: Oh, you slyboots.”

“This slyboots took me for a ton of money, made me do whatever she wanted.”

“Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.”

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