 slip |
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| 1. | [ verb ] move stealthily | |
| Synonyms: | steal | |
| Examples: | "The ship slipped away in the darkness" |
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| Related terms: | move elapse slip_away stealth skid | |
| 2. | [ verb ] insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly | |
| Examples: | "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand" |
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| Related terms: | insert | |
| 3. | [ verb ] move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | |
| Synonyms: | slide slue slew skid | |
| Examples: | "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" |
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| Related terms: | glide skid side-slip submarine stumble slide slider skid | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a socially awkward or tactless act | |
| Synonyms: | gaffe solecism gaucherie faux_pas | |
| Related terms: | blunder | |
| 5. | [ verb ] get worse | |
| Synonyms: | fall_away drop_away drop_off | |
| Examples: | "My grades are slipping" |
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| Related terms: | worsen lapse slump | |
| 6. | [ verb ] move smoothly and easily | |
| Related terms: | escape elapse slip_away | |
| 7. | [ noun ] a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | |
| Synonyms: | miscue parapraxis slip-up slipup | |
| Related terms: | mistake freudian_slip stumble | |
| 8. | [ verb ] to make a mistake or be incorrect | |
| Synonyms: | err mistake | |
| Related terms: | misjudge stumble misremember fall_for stumble mistake erroneousness errancy | |
| 9. | [ noun ] artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | |
| Synonyms: | strip | |
| Related terms: | artifact tape edge band ribbon tickertape band stay weather_strip mullion lead screed tab ticker_tape cramp | |
| 10. | [ noun ] a small sheet of paper | |
| Synonyms: | slip_of_paper | |
| Examples: | "a receipt slip" |
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| Related terms: | sheet | |
| 11. | [ noun ] a slippery smoothness | |
| Synonyms: | slick slipperiness slickness | |
| Examples: | "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" |
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| Related terms: | smoothness slick | |
| 12. | [ noun ] an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | |
| Synonyms: | trip | |
| Examples: | "he blamed his slip on the ice" "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills" |
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| Related terms: | mishap spill trip | |
| 13. | [ noun ] an unexpected slide | |
| Synonyms: | sideslip skid | |
| Related terms: | slide skid skid dislocate | |
| 14. | [ noun ] (transportation) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | |
| Synonyms: | sideslip | |
| Related terms: | flight_maneuver | |
| 15. | [ verb ] pass on stealthily | |
| Synonyms: | sneak | |
| Examples: | "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking" |
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| Related terms: | pass | |
| 16. | [ noun ] a young and slender person | |
| Examples: | "he's a mere slip of a lad" |
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| Related terms: | young_person | |
| 17. | [ verb ] move out of position | |
| Synonyms: | splay luxate dislocate | |
| Examples: | "dislocate joints" "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically" |
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| Related terms: | move dislocation skid dislocation | |
| 18. | [ verb ] pass out of one's memory | |
| Synonyms: | slip_one's_mind | |
| Related terms: | forget forget | |
| 19. | [ noun ] (nautical) a place where a craft can be made fast | |
| Synonyms: | moorage berth mooring | |
| Related terms: | anchorage berth moor | |
| 20. | [ noun ] (botany) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | |
| Synonyms: | cutting | |
| Related terms: | stalk quickset | |
| 21. | [ noun ] (geology) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics | |
| Related terms: | potter's_clay | |
| 22. | [ noun ] (clothing) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | |
| Synonyms: | shimmy shift teddies teddy chemise | |
| Related terms: | undergarment strap | |
| 23. | [ noun ] bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | |
| Synonyms: | pillowcase pillow_slip case | |
| Examples: | "the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase" |
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| Related terms: | bed_linen | |
| 24. | [ noun ] the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | |
| Synonyms: | eluding elusion | |
| Related terms: | evasion elude | |
| Similar spelling: |
slippy slop slap slipway slip_by slope Sloop sleep Slape sloppy sleepy slub slob Slav slab |
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