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What does Sly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Sly? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
Name
  1. A male given name of Old English origin.
    1. (meaning, history) From the name Silvanus and Silvester. From Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
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To borrow from the philosopher Sly Stone, different strokes for different folks.
Sly has traded in his exploding arrows for a chocolate milk mustache, his waxy steroidism for cutesy cloddishness.
Christopher Sly, a drunken old tinker, is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players.
Sly joined the company in 2001 as Vice President of KCI USA Marketing.
Sly digs through, fishes out and mixes samples from the seventies, to unearth the sounds that fascinate him.
He performs Sly with his usual care and dogged efficiency, but he never gets under the skin of the part, and the results are very bland.

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