side-slipn.1
/ˈsʌɪdslɪp/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌslɪp/ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun]
hield943
lithOE
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bankc1390
slentc1400
shoring1567
rist1577
inclining1596
slope1626
side-slip1649
slant1655
sideling1802
hang1808
siding1852
counterslope1853
bajada1866
tilt1903
palaeoslope1957
1649 Surv. Manor of Wymbledon in Archaeologia (1792) 10 434 The scite of this manor house being placed on the side slipp of a rising ground.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 223/1 On th' side-slip o' Wroot.]
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides
side-scene1675
side wing1698
slips1771
prompt sidec1782
wing1790
side-slip1808
coulisse1819
prompt corner1872
tormentor1886
P1901
1795 Gore's Advertiser 24 Sept. 3/2 The disorderly proceedings which every night take place in the Gallery, but particularly in the side slips, from which the people in the Pit are pelted during the whole of the performance.]
1808 Hull Packet 22 Nov. How was my astonishment increased, on seeing her, after she had retired behind the scenes, return to the side-slip, and, deliberately resting her hand against it, throw herself into a tragedy attitude.
1848 Era 9 Jan. 12/3 The stage has undergone various improvements—it has been widened considerably, the wings and side slips have been repainted, [etc.].
1909 L. A. B. tr. W. Semenoff Rasplata i. vi. 128 The edges of Golden Hill, Lighthouse Hill, and Tiger's Tail Peninsula were like the side-slips of a stage. We were the ‘supers’ waiting behind these for the moment when we were to step on the stage.
3.
a. Esp. with reference to a bicycle or motor vehicle: the action of slipping or moving sideways; a sideways slip or movement; a skid.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [noun] > skidding > sideways
side-slip1826
side slipping1832
1826 tr. L. Tieck in Monthly Rev. 3 App. 462 They are endeavouring gradually to get near the side scenes, and each goes off, after having spoken his last word, with a side slip[Ger. Seitenpas].
1885 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 82 148 A butcher's cart driven round a corner with tremendous fury would..still continue its course with very little side slip.
1896 Daily News 16 Nov. 4/2 Cyclists..came ignominiously to earth by reason of the demon ‘side-slip’.
1906 Automobile 31 May 867/1 Most automobilists of experience know the generally accepted method of pulling a car straight after a side slip.
1946 Cosmopolitan Oct. 103 (advt.) A new standard of balance prevents wander or side-slip when you're rounding turns.
1969 T. McLean Red Dragons of Rugby iii. 36 His mind was performing sidesteps and sideslips before his feet had caught up with the intention.
2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 21 Sept. iii. 19/3 DSC detects wheelspin and side slip in corners and keeps the vehicle under control by applying anti-lock brakes to the slipping wheel.
b. figurative. A diversion from a central issue or straight course; a digression, a wrong direction. Also: an error, a mistake.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression
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1843 Cleave's Penny Gaz. 20 May But I suppose that was nothing but a mogue, my worthy, a sort o' side slip in conversation.
1908 Punch 4 Nov. 340/3 Making an actuarial allowance for mnemonic side-slips, I spoke as follows.
1932 Robert Burns Chron. & Club Dir. 2nd Ser. 7 38 It is essentially a long list, chapter by chapter, of all that he did wrong; his side-slips from virtue; the women who..bore children to him [etc.].
1979 B. Wright tr. H. Le Porrier Doctor from Cordova xv. 93 The old men took me to task because of my sideslip into what they considered a perversion.
1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Review section) 9/2 It is a measure of Updike's mastery that these side-slips—into the mind of Mark the Evangelist, or of an Egyptian grave robber..—are intriguing rather than irritating.
c. Aeronautics. = slip n.3 9j; (also) a manoeuvre in which this is deliberately produced.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > sideslip
side slipping1832
side-slip1910
skid1916
slip1916
1910 Flight 25 June 493/1 Is the banking..sufficient to overcome centrifugal movement (which is of course a sort of side-slip) or not?
1928 Observer 1 July 17/3 With the greatest of ease they performed side-slips, vertical dives, and loops.
1941 NACA Wartime Rep. No. L–365 Oct. 6 There may be relatively large amounts of initial sideslip, depending on how the banked attitude is obtained.
1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 108/1 He eventually made a safe landing after the machine was put into a side-slip.
2010 T. McCarthy C vii. 125 They're shown how to ascend in gyres, stall,..perform sideslips and Immelmann turns.
d. In skiing, snowboarding, and surfing: the action or an act of travelling down a slope or wave with one's skis or board at an oblique angle to the direction of travel. Cf. side-slip v. 3.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer
kick-out1801
ride1883
side-slip1913
surf1917
slide1935
pull-out1957
quasimodo1960
head dip1962
nose-riding1962
rolling1962
spinner1962
stalling1962
toes over1962
cutback1963
Eskimo roll1964
re-entry1968
right1968
rollercoaster1968
barrel roll1971
hold-down1982
railing1983
cross-stepping1990
cross-step1994
turtle roll2001
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > actions of skier
side slipping1832
herringbone1904
herringboning1904
traverse1905
side-slip1913
ploughing1924
sitzmark1930
schussing1961
angulation1963
unweighting1969
1913 A. Lunn Ski-ing iii. 79 The expert makes great use of the side-slip for getting down difficult ground... Run with your ski in the normal position for traversing a slope... Flatten them against the slope and slip sideways. Then run a little way in the normal position and again side-slip.
1959 P. Moyes Dead Men don't Ski iv. 51 Now they were tackling the sideslip—skidding sideways down icy slopes, their skis flat against the mountain-side.
1968 Surfer Jan. 24/3 Sliding sideways in a controlled sideslip until you reach the bottom of the wave.
1993 Ski Surv. Feb. 28/1 At the very lip of the peak, I started with a timid sideslip, knowing I couldn't delay the first turn forever.
4. An illegitimate child. Cf. by-slip n. 2. Now archaic and rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child
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1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. iv. xl. 344 The old man..left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark.
1902 W. Barry Papal Monarchy xi. 174 It was not likely that an obscure student could make good his claim while Arnulf, a side-slip of the fallen French royalty, stood by to be elected.
1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. vi. 105 They baited her with words learned from their elders: ‘bastard’ and ‘sideslip’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
side-slipn.2
/ˈsʌɪdslɪp/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌslɪp/ Horticulture. Now rare.
A cutting taken from a side shoot or lateral twig of a plant; a slip (slip n.2 1a).
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
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side-slip1651
slift1657
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cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
1651 P. Hausted tr. R. Thorius Hymnus Tabaci ii. 69 From off a lusty stock a plump seed gain, Whose leaf is long and thick: side-slips [L. pedunclo] despise, The best doth still from the main branch arise.
1781 S. Fullmer Young Gardener's Best Compan. 287 If those of the side-slips and cuttings in particular,..are plunged in a bark-bed, it will greatly forward their rooting.
1876 Garden 12 Aug. 176/1 This Campanula..is generally increased by means of side-slips taken off after the plants have done flowering.
1905 Horticulture July 32/1 Side slips never make perfect plants.
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side-slipv.
/ˈsʌɪdslɪp/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdˌslɪp/ 1.
a. intransitive. Esp. of a road vehicle: to slip or skid sideways on a surface.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > perform special movements [verb (intransitive)] > move sideways
traverse1539
passage1753
side-slip1870
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > skid > sideways
side-slip1870
1870 Rep. Special Comm. on Pavements 61 The united faces of the blocks being continuous from curb to curb, the wheels cannot side-slip or trip.
1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 534/1 They [sc. camels] will prance and curvet and sideslip, and generally make a misery of their rider's life.
1973 Herald (Truth or Consequences, New Mexico) 1 Feb. 12/2 Allsup's vehicle left the roadway and sideslipped in the gravel.
1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders xlii. 579 She maneuvered left onto the median, the car side-slipping as it clawed its way across the inward-sloping surface.
b. transitive. To cause (something, originally a motor vehicle) to slip or move sideways.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)]
wind13..
sidle1779
sidestep1905
side-slip1906
crab1929
1906 Rep. Select Comm. Cabs & Omnibuses (Metropolis) Bill 176/2 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 295) VII. 581 It takes a lot to side slip a motor bus. It is not like a pleasure car.
1922 Amer. Motorist Apr. 10/1 ‘Know what those are?’ he asked, while a grin side-slipped one side of his face.
1964 D. Macarthur Reminisc. v. 125 The problem was to sideslip my troops westward..before their path would be cut off from the north.
1998 Motorboating & Sailing Oct. 54/2 WhisperJet yachts have offered superior maneuverability in close quarters, making it possible for owners..to sideslip them precisely into tight docking spaces.
2. Aeronautics.
a. intransitive. Of an aeroplane: to move sideways, esp. towards the centre of curvature while turning (cf. skid v.1 3c). Cf. slip v.1 9c.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)] > sideslip
side-slip1911
skid1911
slip1911
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > cause aircraft to move in specific manner
bank1909
side-slip1911
slip1911
overbank1915
spin1918
yaw1920
hover1967
1911 Flight 23 Sept. 830/2 He turned sharply to the left, permitting the machine to bank up too much, whereupon it side-slipped to the ground.
1929 B. Hall & J. J. Niles One Man's War 115 He tipped over on his left wing and side-slipped out of the way.
1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 36 From three thousand feet they tilted Over, side-slipped away.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxv. 183 The whole plane felt dead and we sideslipped fast.
2010 T. McCarthy C ix. 164 I try to tip the whole thing back, then stall and side-slip down, but it never works.
b. transitive. To cause (an aircraft) to side-slip.
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1919 U. S. Air Service Sept. 26/2 Davie used his head and sideslipped the plane into the ground which kept the greater part of the heat of the fire away from himself and Harwell.
1929 Techn. Rep. Aeronaut. Res. Comm. 1928–9 II. 691 If the aeroplane is side-slipped with the rudder bar central, the main rudder will set itself along the relative wind.
1941 F. Pope & A. S. Otis Elements Aeronaut. ix. 84 It is possible..to sideslip the plane even during a turn of the ‘S’.
2012 M. Lazzari-Wing Blue Skies, Green Hell xxvi. 284 Frank was side-slipping the plane for a short landing.
3. intransitive. In skiing, snowboarding, and surfing: to travel down a slope or wave with one's skis or board at an oblique angle to the direction of travel. Also with the board, etc., as subject. Cf. side-slip n.1 3d.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > ski [verb (intransitive)] > actions of skier
run1654
sidestep1894
herringbone1904
traverse1905
side-skid1906
side-slip1913
sitzmark1935
angulate1963
schuss1963
unweight1981
1905 W. R. Rickmers & E. C. Richardson in D. M. M. C. Somerville et al. Ski-running (ed. 2) 69 Side-slipping is, however, nothing but a method of descending a dangerous slope where snow-ploughing, ‘stemming’, &c..., are out of the question.]
1913 A. Lunn Ski-ing iii. 79 The expert makes great use of the side-slip for getting down difficult ground... Run with your ski in the normal position for traversing a slope... Flatten them against the slope and slip sideways. Then run a little way in the normal position and again side-slip.
1952 F. Iselin & A. C. Spectorsky Invitation to Skiing vi. 101 When you can side slip and stop at will, you are ready for the next exercise.
1965 P. L. Dixon Compl. Bk. Surfing vi. 91 This lessens the friction on the inside rail and allows the board to sideslip down the wave front.
1972 ‘M. Yorke’ Silent Witness ii. 13 Knees flexed..he had side-slipped down the sheer drop from the shoulder of the mountain.
1995 F. Reis Gidget Must Die 34 He took a step on the outside rail..so it side-slipped down the wave and he made it through the whitewater into the reformed wave.
2005 New Yorker 18 Apr. 116/3 I..chopped my way into a steep, icy trough, intermittently jump-turning and side-slipping.
4. intransitive. In extended use: to move in a manner likened to a side-slip (cf. senses 1a and 2a, and side-slip n.1 3); to slip away or aside; to move elusively or adroitly.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)]
side1826
crayfish1900
sidewind1909
side-slip1921
crab1964
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] > avoid by moving to the side
dodge1680
jinka1774
jouk1812
sidestep1894
side-slip1921
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. iii. 36 His heart moved in a disconcerting manner, as if it had side-slipped within his chest.
1931 Technol. Rev. Nov. 67/1 I was cruising along 43d Street when along came Bill, Sam, and Charlie in formation, and we all sideslipped into a speakeasy and did a lot of barroom flying.
1960 T. McLean Kings of Rugby xi. 120 He offered dummy passes, sidestepped, sideslipped.
1994 R. J. Waller Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend i. 9 Someone with less a sense of herself than Jellie Braden would have sideslipped away from the invitation.
5. transitive. To avoid by slipping or moving sideways (literal and figurative); to elude, give the slip.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun
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side-slip1930
to walk away from1936
punt1969
1930 London Mercury Feb. 319 Here he was suddenly realising that they controlled another mode of clutching. Better to side-slip that too—if he could.
1961 E. J. Stackpole Sheridan in Shenandoah v. 128 Lee's advance..nullified Grant's modified strategy to sideslip his opponent and enabled the Confederate army to get there first.
1988 W. Soyinka Mandela's Earth 48 Butterfly sideslipping death from rocket probes.
1997 N.Y. Times 25 July b4/1 (advt.) An established parish priest who relies heavily on humor, charm and diplomacy to navigate the diocesan political shoals, sideslip controversy and retain the affection of his urban congregation.
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