What “Slime You Out” Really Means

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Plus, how Drake and SZA popularized the phrase with their 2023 collab

Co-authored by Dan Hickey

Last Updated: October 23, 2025 Fact Checked

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No, “slime you out” doesn’t refer to getting doused with lime green slime on Nickelodeon. The slang phrase, popularized by the Drake and SZA collab “Slime You Out” in 2023, actually means to use someone for sex and then move on without any emotional attachment. In this article, we’ll explore the nuanced meaning of this phrase in more depth, plus explore how it got so popular.

“Slime You Out” Definition

“Slime you out” is a slang phrase that means to use or exploit someone (usually for sex) before moving on and tossing them aside. Sometimes, “sliming someone out” is done as payback for being mistreated by them before. The phrase was popularized by Drake and SZA’s song “Slime You Out” from 2023.

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What does “slime you out” mean?

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“Slime you out” means to use someone for sex and then toss them aside. Most often, “sliming someone out” has a negative, sexual meaning. It refers to using or manipulating someone for sex and then “discarding” that person without any emotional attachment—AKA, ignoring them, breaking up with them, or dismissing them in some hurtful way. Sometimes, “sliming someone out” also implies retribution for being previously hurt or used by that person.^{[1]
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- Example: Say someone pretends to care for someone else just to hook up with them, but then they break things off and move on afterward. They would have just slimed that person out.
- “I’ve heard he’s no good and slimes girls out all the time.”
- “She hasn’t texted me back all week. I think I got slimed out 🙁”
- This is the way singers Drake and SZA use the phrase in their collab “Slime You Out” from 2023, which popularized this phrase in the mainstream and describes how the artists have been hurt in the past.
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“Slime you out” can also mean to use someone for personal gain more generally. Using someone for sex is the most common way to “slime someone out,” but the phrase can refer to using or taking advantage of someone in a number of other ways. Any manipulative or exploitative relationship where one person uses the other before moving on can be considered “sliming someone out.”
- For example, someone might pretend to be someone else’s friend because they spend lots of money on them or do favors for them. If they don’t reciprocate or support them at the end of the day, they’re not really that person’s friend—they’re just sliming them out.
- “Ugh, she slimed me out just to copy off my math test.”
- “I don’t trust him. He slimes people out all the time for clout.”

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Where did “slime you out” come from?

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“Slime you out” was popularized by the Drake and SZA song of the same name in 2023. Like most slang, we’re not totally sure where exactly “slime you out” comes from. Chances are that it was a niche phrase for at least a few years before the song “Slime You Out” dropped (the earliest mention of it in Urban Dictionary is from 2019). However, the phrase really took off in September 2023 when Drake released the track as the lead single for his eighth studio album, For All the Dogs.
- For example, in the song, Drake says, “I'm slimin' you for them kid choices you made.” He’s expressing that he’s been hurt by a partner’s immature “choices” before, and just plans to “slim them out” now as a response.^{[2]
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- In SZA’s feature, she adds, “Got too much pride to let no burnt ***** slime me out,” meaning she won’t let herself be used in that way by any past or future partner.

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“Slime You Out” Less Common Meaning

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To double-cross (or even kill) someone after they do something suspicious “Slime you out” is sometimes a violent slang phrase for “taking someone out” after they’ve said or done something fishy that could threaten someone else’s plans or well-being. This could mean doing something manipulative like double-crossing or betraying their trust to get them in trouble or incapacitate them, or in the worst case, using violence against them as retribution.^{[3]
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- “You better not make the ring leader suspicious or you could get slimed out.”
- “If he keeps talking, he’ll ruin the whole operation. It’s time to slime him out.”