Adjective: Possessing a certain shoddy mid-70s aesthetic that's neither psychedelic nor edgy, but just sort of hazy, slouching, and brownish. Usually associated with a failed attempt to be hip, years behind a given trend (i.e., still wearing bell-bottoms in the early 80s).
Canonical examples include Rankin and Bass's animated film "The Hobbit", the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the original televised Scooby Doo, municipal museum dioramas, and balding men with ponytails.
Note that sloobiness implies a lack of polish, tightness, and intentionality. For example, Cheech and Chong may appear slooby on the surface, but the effect is too deliberate and legitimately funny to be slooby. If something is or ever was cool, then it is not slooby; it's just vintage. Similarly, while The Dude would certainly be considered slooby if he were a real person, the film "The Big Lebowski" is a masterpiece and is not in the least slooby.
Canonical examples include Rankin and Bass's animated film "The Hobbit", the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the original televised Scooby Doo, municipal museum dioramas, and balding men with ponytails.
Note that sloobiness implies a lack of polish, tightness, and intentionality. For example, Cheech and Chong may appear slooby on the surface, but the effect is too deliberate and legitimately funny to be slooby. If something is or ever was cool, then it is not slooby; it's just vintage. Similarly, while The Dude would certainly be considered slooby if he were a real person, the film "The Big Lebowski" is a masterpiece and is not in the least slooby.
When Gary said his band played "barbecue-sauce-rock", I knew it would be shitty, but I didn't expect it to be this slooby.
by Malcolm St. Saintsonsen November 23, 2021
Adjective: Possessing a certain shoddy mid-70s aesthetic that's neither psychedelic nor edgy, but just sort of hazy, slouching, and brownish. Usually associated with a failed attempt to be hip, years behind a given trend (i.e., still wearing bell-bottoms in the early 80s).
Canonical examples include Rankin and Bass's animated film "The Hobbit", the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the original televised Scooby Doo, municipal museum dioramas, and balding men with ponytails.
Note that sloobiness implies a lack of polish, tightness, and intentionality. For example, Cheech and Chong may appear slooby on the surface, but the effect is too deliberate and legitimately funny to be slooby. If something is or ever was cool, then it is not slooby; it's just vintage. Similarly, while The Dude would certainly be considered slooby if he were a real person, the film "The Big Lebowski" is a masterpiece and is not in the least slooby.
Canonical examples include Rankin and Bass's animated film "The Hobbit", the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the original televised Scooby Doo, municipal museum dioramas, and balding men with ponytails.
Note that sloobiness implies a lack of polish, tightness, and intentionality. For example, Cheech and Chong may appear slooby on the surface, but the effect is too deliberate and legitimately funny to be slooby. If something is or ever was cool, then it is not slooby; it's just vintage. Similarly, while The Dude would certainly be considered slooby if he were a real person, the film "The Big Lebowski" is a masterpiece and is not in the least slooby.
When Gary said his band plays "barbecue-sauce-rock", I knew it would be bad, but I didn't realize it would be quite this slooby.
by Malcolm St. Saintsonsen November 23, 2021
A word used to describe whimsical and upbeat music and artists. You would say someone is Slooby, or feeling Slooby, if they are composers of joyous, playful and melodic music.
by NotSlooby October 7, 2022
Slug anatomy. Equivalent of breasts. If slugs had boobies, they would be called sloobies.
Inspired by a Facebook chain mail, this phrases was used to promote breast cancer fundraising events.
Inspired by a Facebook chain mail, this phrases was used to promote breast cancer fundraising events.
by WomenUnite March 10, 2015