sloading verb (gerund/present participle) & noun
sload·ing /ˈslō-dɪŋ/
(verb) The act of downloading or otherwise loading digital content at a painfully slow pace.
(noun) A download or data transfer that crawls along so slowly it feels stalled, often accompanied by growing user frustration.
sload·ing /ˈslō-dɪŋ/
(verb) The act of downloading or otherwise loading digital content at a painfully slow pace.
(noun) A download or data transfer that crawls along so slowly it feels stalled, often accompanied by growing user frustration.
Essay-deadline, 11 p.m.
Student (texting friend): “The journal PDF is sloading—3 MB left and the progress bar hasn’t moved in five minutes. If it doesn’t finish soon, my citation list is toast.”
Friend: “Ethernet beats dorm Wi-Fi. Plug in before the spinner hypnotizes you.”
Student (texting friend): “The journal PDF is sloading—3 MB left and the progress bar hasn’t moved in five minutes. If it doesn’t finish soon, my citation list is toast.”
Friend: “Ethernet beats dorm Wi-Fi. Plug in before the spinner hypnotizes you.”
by Blake McBride May 13, 2025
Get the sloadingmug. by Sload May 10, 2022
Get the Sloadmug. Contraction of the idiomatic expression 'shit load' to indicate something existing in abundance. For example "He just ate a sload of babies" to indicate "he just ate a shit load of small children" Not to be confused with the inversion "your explanation is a load of shit".
"The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a sload of points." - Zach Galifianakis
by flakyfred March 16, 2017
Get the sloadmug. by Vance November 17, 2003
Get the Sloading.mug. #1
Sky: Why aren't you watching the video?
Jerry: Can't you see it's still sloading.
#2
Veronica: This is so slow.
Patricia: Yeah, it's sloading.
Sky: Why aren't you watching the video?
Jerry: Can't you see it's still sloading.
#2
Veronica: This is so slow.
Patricia: Yeah, it's sloading.
by Browniez February 7, 2017
Get the Sloadingmug. When you're trying to upload your file when doing school from home but everyone else has jumped online and that circle just keeps spinning.
by School-from-home March 23, 2020
Get the Sloadingmug. Sloading is the slow buffering your computer or electronic device can go through, when the connection is bad.
by CallumFoster January 29, 2021
Get the Sloadingmug.