slew (slews plural & 3rd person present) (slewing present participle) (slewed past tense & past participle )
1 Slew is the past tense of slay.
2 verb If a vehicle slews or is slewed across a road, it slides across it.
The bus slewed sideways... V adv/prep
He slewed the car against the side of the building. V n prep/adv
3 n-count A slew of things is a large number of them.
(mainly AM) usu sing, usu N of n
There have been a whole slew of shooting incidents...