- 1a sloping position The sofa faced the fire at a slant. Cut the flower stems on the slant.
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- 2slant (on something/somebody) a way of thinking about something, especially one that shows support for a particular opinion or side in a disagreement She put a new slant on the play. Her book looks at his writings from a feminist slant.
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