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Slews

noun
1.
A large number or amount.  Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, stacks, tons, wads.  "She amassed stacks of newspapers"



Slew

verb
1.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
2.
Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.  Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue.
noun
1.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"



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... "Slews. I got to meet him in the Subway at seven and go to Brooklyn shops with him to look over those ventilators I'm having put in ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst



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