1. A large number or amount
   "Slews of people attended the concert";
   - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], wads [informal], oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]

1. (often followed by ‘of’) a large number, amount or extent
   "a slew of journalists";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal], scad [N. Amer, informal]

1. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly
   "The motorbike slewed to the right";
   - swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, cut
    
2. Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
   "the wheels slewed against the pavement";
   - skid, slip, slue, slide

See also: stumble

Type of: glide, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, turn

Encyclopedia: Slew