transitive. To avoid or evade, slip away from.

transitive. To steal away from (a place or person) secretly. Obsolete. rare.

To slip away, elude one's grasp, like something greasy.

To elude or evade, esp. in a stealthy manner; to escape from; to give the slip to.

transitive. To deceive, cheat; to elude, slip from. (= Latin fallere.)

to give (one) the slip, or variants of this: To evade or escape from (a person); to elude, steal off or slip away from unperceived.

intransitive. colloquial. To succeed in getting past (someone); to evade; to escape the notice of.

transitive. To slip away from; to evade or escape (a person, duty, etc.).

To elude, escape from; to give (a person) the slip. Formerly also: †to deceive, hoodwink (obsolete). Now only in historical contexts.

To slip away from, escape adroitly from (a person's grasp or pursuit, literal and figurative); to evade (curiosity, vigilance, etc.).

A spiked staff or stick, esp. (in early use) a pilgrim's staff; a pikestaff. Cf. pike, n.1 2a. Obsolete. rare.

To elude, evade, escape from, ‘give the slip’ to.

A staff having a point or spike; a pikestaff or pike-pole; (in early use esp.) a pilgrim's staff. Cf. pike, n.4

The action or an act of dropping, in various senses, e.g. the fall of a minute particle of liquid; an abrupt and clear fall or vertical descent in…

transitive. To evade, elude, ‘dodge’, by ducking, bending, or springing aside.

transitive. To avoid or escape by doubling; to elude, give the slip to.

Cant. (See quot. 1819.)

transitive. To evade (a person, his conversation, acquaintance, etc.); to avoid meeting, to dodge, ‘give the slip’ to. Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To get away from, to avoid, dodge (a person or thing). colloquial (originally U.S.).