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In the sense ‘detached, or intended to be detached, from a railway train while running’, as slip-carriage, slip-coach, slip-compartment, slip-portion…
Applied to the under part of the fuselage of an aeroplane. Hence belly-landing, a crash-landing of an aeroplane on its belly without use of the…