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Slobodan Milošević (Слободан Милошевић)
Slobodan Milošević (Слободан Милошевић), Serbian and Yugoslav president during the Yugoslav wars, first former head of state tried for war crimes by the ICTY; indicted for Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia, died 11 March 2006 mid-trial with no verdict.
Slobodan Miskovic
Slobodan Mišković (Слободан Мишковић), nicknamed Čile, Yugoslav handball player (1944–1997) of RK Crvenka; Olympic gold at Munich 1972, 1974 World bronze, 89 caps and 60 goals for Yugoslavia.
Slobodan Praljak
Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017), Croatian general and former theatre director, commander of the Herceg-Bosna/HVO Main Staff, convicted to 20 years by the ICTY in the Prlić et al. case; he drank poison in court and died after his appeal was affirmed.
Slobodan Žumer
Slobodan Žumer, born in Ljubljana in 1945, is a Slovenian theoretical physicist at the University of Ljubljana known for the theory of liquid crystals and nematic colloids.
Sloe gin
Sloe gin: a red British liqueur made by steeping tart blackthorn (sloe) berries in gin with sugar; legally a liqueur at minimum 25% ABV, traditionally served at Christmas and in the Sloe Gin Fizz.
Slogan
Slogan: a short, memorable persuasive phrase used in advertising, politics, and movements; from Gaelic sluagh-ghairm (battle cry); distinct from a motto, which states a fixed belief.
Slomosa
Slomosa is a Norwegian stoner and desert rock band from Bergen, formed in 2017, whose four members call their music "tundra rock"; they have released two studio albums.
Sloop
A sloop is a sailing vessel with one mast, a fore-and-aft rig, and two sails: a headsail ahead of the mast and a mainsail behind it.
Sloop John B
Sloop John B (The John B. Sails) is a traditional Bahamian folk song about a doomed sloop voyage, first printed in 1903, recorded by the Kingston Trio in 1958, and made a 1966 number three hit by the Beach Boys on Pet Sounds.
Sloop-of-war
A sloop-of-war was an unrated sailing warship with fewer than 20 guns, used for patrol and escort duties; the French equivalent was called a corvette.
Slopaganda
Slopaganda is a term, coined by Michał Klincewicz, Mark Alfano, and Amir Fard in a 2025 paper, for AI-generated content used to manipulate beliefs for political ends.
Slope
Slope of a line, also called the gradient, is the ratio of vertical change (rise) to horizontal change (run); horizontal lines have slope 0, vertical lines undefined slope.
Slope deflection method
The slope deflection method is a classical structural analysis method for finding member end moments in indeterminate beams and frames, introduced by George A. Maney in 1915.
Slope stability analysis
Slope stability analysis is the geotechnical engineering method for assessing whether a soil or rock slope will remain stable, by computing a factor of safety against sliding.
Sloped armour
Sloped armor is armor plate mounted at an angle to the expected line of fire, lengthening a projectile's path and causing ricochets, made famous by the Soviet T-34.
Slopestyle snowboarding
Slopestyle snowboarding: judged freestyle discipline on rail-and-jump courses; developed late 1990s via Burton Open, TTR, X Games; Olympic since Sochi 2014; 60/40 section and overall-impression scoring.
Sloppy joe
Sloppy joe: American hot sandwich of ground beef simmered in tangy tomato-based sauce on a hamburger bun; also called BBQ or tavern sandwich regionally, distinct from the sauceless Iowa loose meat sandwich and from New Jersey's cold triple-decker namesake.
Slopsquatting
Slopsquatting is a software supply-chain attack where an adversary registers a package name hallucinated by a code-generating AI model, coined by Seth Larson in April 2025 by analogy with typosquatting.
SLOSH
SLOSH (Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes) is a two-dimensional operational storm surge model developed by NOAA, used for decades in hurricane forecasting and US evacuation planning.
Slot antenna
A slot antenna is a radiator formed by cutting an aperture in a conductive surface, used from 300 MHz to 24 GHz in radar and UHF TV broadcasting.
Slot car
A slot car is a miniature racing car guided by a pin or blade in a slotted track, powered through the slot rails. Covers scales (1:32, 1:24, HO), analog vs digital systems, brands, competition, speeds, history and current trends.
Slot filling
Slot filling is a natural language processing task that extracts specific attribute values, called slots, from unstructured text to fill a fixed template or knowledge base entry.
Slot machine
Slot machine: coin-operated gambling device with spinning reels or video reels. From Sittman and Pitt (1891) and Charles Fey's Liberty Bell (c. 1895) to electromechanical, video, and online slots; RNG-regulated, $35.51B US revenue in 2023.
Slot trading
Slot trading is the buying, selling, leasing, or swapping of airport slots, the take-off and landing authorizations airlines hold, as a secondary market at congested airports.
Slot-die coating
Slot-die coating is a pre-metered coating process that delivers liquid through a fixed slot onto a moving substrate, producing uniform thin films with preset thickness.
Sloth
Sloths are arboreal, leaf-eating mammals found in Central and South America. They are classified into two genera, Choloepus and Bradypus, characterized by a slow movement and low metabolism.
Sloth (deadly sin)
Sloth, known in Catholic tradition as acedia or the noonday demon, is one of the seven deadly sins: sorrowful aversion to the spiritual good, not simple laziness.
Sloth bear
Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), an insect-eating Vulnerable bear of India, Sri Lanka and Nepal; eats termites and ants, carries cubs on its back, and is the only bear missing upper incisors.
Slotline
Slotline is a planar microwave transmission medium proposed by S. B. Cohn in 1968. It features a narrow gap in a dielectric substrate to support frequencies in the 60 to 200 ohm range.
Slots City
Slots City (Слотс Сіті) is a gambling brand: a Ukrainian licensed casino and slot-hall network (Gamedev, KRAIL No. 47, 2021; later PlayCity No. 137-R) and a separate Curaçao-licensed online casino run by Sharkscode B.V. for Canadian players.