1. (Informal.)slew a large number or quantity: a whole slew of people.
Etymology: (1830–40, Amer.; < Ir sluagh crowd, army, host)
Definition of 'Slew'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
2. (verb)swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut turn sharply; change direction abruptly "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
3. (verb)skid, slip, slue, slew, slide move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
Definitions of Slew 
Afrikaans: draai
Arabic: يَلُف، يَلْتَف
Bulgarian: обръщам (се)
Brazilian: virar
Czech: otočit se
German: sich drehen
Danish: svinge; dreje
Greek: περιστρέφομαι
Spanish: torcer
Estonian: pöörduma, pöörama
Farsi: چرخاندن
Finnish: liukua
French: déraper
Hebrew: לְהִסתוֹבֵב
Hindi: बलपूर्वक मोड़ना, घुमाना
Croatian: okrenuti u suprotnom smje
Hungarian: megperdül
Indonesian: membelok
Icelandic: snúast
Italian: sbandare
Japanese: 回る
Korean: (미끄러져) 회전하다
Lithuanian: pa(si)sukti
Latvian: pagriezt; sagriezt; pagri
Malay: berpusing
Dutch: zwenken
Norwegian: dreie, svinge
Polish: obracać się
Persian: چرخاندن
Pashto: د lay ماضي (وواژه، حلال ك
Portuguese: virar
Romanian: a derapa
Russian: круто поворачивать(ся)
Slovak: otočiť sa
Slovenian: obrniti (se)
Serbian: naglo okrenuti
Swedish: svänga runt
Thai: หมุน
Turkish: dön(dür)mek, savrulmak
Taiwanese: 旋轉
Ukrainian: обертатися; повертатися
Vietnamese: quay, xoay, vặn
Chinese: 旋转
