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Verb: slip (slipped,slipping) slip- Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- skid, slue, slew, slide - Move stealthily
"The ship slipped away in the darkness"
- steal - Insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
"He slipped some money into the waiter's hand" - Get worse
"My grades are slipping"
- drop off, drop away, fall away - Move smoothly and easily
"the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble" - To make a mistake or be incorrect
- err, mistake - Pass on stealthily
"He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"
- sneak - Move easily
"slip into something comfortable" - Cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
"he slipped the bolt into place" - Pass out of one's memory
- slip one's mind - Move out of position
- dislocate, luxate, splay
Noun: slip slip- A socially awkward or tactless act
- faux pas, gaffe, solecism, gaucherie - A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- slip-up, miscue, parapraxis - Potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- cutting - A young and slender person
"he's a mere slip of a lad" - A place where a craft can be made fast
- mooring, moorage, berth - An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
"he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"
- trip - A slippery smoothness
- slickness, slick, slipperiness - Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- strip - A small sheet of paper
"a receipt slip"
- slip of paper - A woman's sleeveless undergarment
- chemise, shimmy, shift, teddy - Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- case, pillowcase, pillow slip - An unexpected slide
- skid, sideslip - A flight manoeuvre; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- sideslip - The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- elusion, eluding
Derived forms: slipping, slipped, slips See also: fall, slip away, slip up, slippage, slippy Type of: aeroplane manoeuvre [Brit], airplane maneuver [US], airplane manoeuvre [Cdn], anchorage, anchorage ground, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], bed linen, blank out, block, bloomer, blooper [N. Amer], blue [Austral, NZ], blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, break loose, bungle, coast, decline, displace, draw a blank, enclose, error, escape, evasion, fault, flight maneuver [US], flight manoeuvre [Brit, Cdn], flub [N. Amer], forget, foul-up, get away, give, glide, hand, inclose, insert, introduce, misadventure, mischance, mishap, mistake, move, pass, pass on, piece of paper, potter's clay, potter's earth, pratfall, put in, reach, sheet, sheet of paper, slide, smoothness, spring chicken, stalk, stem, stick in, turn over, undergarment, unmentionable, worsen, young person, younker, youth Encyclopedia: Slip Slip, Stitch & Pass |