slot

1 noun (C)

1 a long narrow hole made in a surface, especially for putting something into: Place your coins in the slot slowly.

2 a short period of time allowed for one particular event on a programme or timetable: a regular ten-minute slot on the breakfast show | landing slots at Heathrow Airport

2 verb slotted, slotting (intransitive always + adv/prep) to go into a slot, or to make something do this (+ in): The disc slots in at the front. | slot sth together (=fit together): You buy the bookshelf in pieces and then slot them together yourself. slot in phrasal verb (I, T) informal to find a time or a place for someone or something in a plan, organization etc: slot sb/sth in: We should be able to slot the meeting in before lunch.