slipverb
uk/slɪp/us/slɪp/-pp-slip verb (SLIDE)
B1 [ I ] to slide without intending to:
C2 [ I ] to move out of the correct position:
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- I slipped on the ice and landed right on my bottom!
- Careful you don't slip on this floor in your socks!
- He'd slipped in the bath and broken his hip.
- The glass just slipped from my grasp.
- I slipped as I stepped onto the platform.
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Advancing and moving forward
- advance
- advancing
- approach
- beeline
- come
- come over
- come up
- gain
- gain on sb/sth
- head
- make
- make for somewhere/sth
- make towards sth/sb
- proceed
- pull
- push
- roll
- slide
- surge
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slip verb (DO QUICKLY)
C2 [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] to go somewhere or put something somewhere quickly, often so that you are not noticed:
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- I slipped quietly out of the back door.
- She found the side-door open and slipped into the house unseen.
- We managed to slip away unnoticed.
- I slipped a key into his hand while she wasn't looking.
- I slipped a ten-pound note into his hand as we hugged.
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Moving quickly
- beetle
- belt
- bob
- bowl down/along sth
- careen
- career
- glide
- gun
- leg
- make off
- outran
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- shoot
- stampede
- trot
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slip verb (GET WORSE)
[ I ] to go into a worse state, often because of lack of control or care:
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Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- backslide
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- regress
- retrograde
- retrogress
- run yourself down
- seed
- slippery slope
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slip verb (ESCAPE)
[ T ] to get free from, leave, or escape something:
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Running away and escaping
- abscond
- back away
- back off
- bail out
- be at large idiom
- be on the run idiom
- flee
- fugitive
- gaolbreak
- getaway
- go/be run to ground idiom
- heel
- leg
- loose
- scram
- shake sb/sth off
- shoot through
- skedaddle
- stand clear
- throw
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slip verb (VALUE)
[ I ] to go down in value:
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let sth down
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- minimize
- shrink
- slash
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
- take a tumble idiom
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Idiom(s)
Phrasal verb(s)
slipnoun
uk/slɪp/us/slɪp/slip noun (PIECE OF PAPER)
[ C ] a small piece of paper:
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Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- ray
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
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slip noun (MISTAKE)
[ C ] a small mistake:
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Faults and mistakes
- a blot on sb's character idiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- chink
- clinker
- creep in/creep into sth
- errata
- erratum
- error
- failing
- false alarm
- false move
- irregularity
- lapse
- loophole
- misprint
- misspell
- mistake
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slip noun (FALL)
[ C ] an act of falling or sliding:
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Falling and dropping
- ass
- ass over teakettle idiom
- collapse
- collapse/fall in a heap idiom
- cropper
- crumple
- drop
- drop like flies idiom
- drop sb/sth off
- fly
- hit the deck idiom
- let go idiom
- nosedive
- overbalance
- parachutist
- plunge
- pratfall
- put sth/sb down
- shower
- thump
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slip noun (GETTING WORSE)
[ C ] an occasion when something becomes worse:
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Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- backslide
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- regress
- retrograde
- retrogress
- run yourself down
- seed
- slippery slope
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slip noun (UNDERWEAR)
[ C ] a piece of underwear for a woman or girl that is like a dress or skirt
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Underwear
- basque
- bloomer
- bodice
- bodysuit
- boxer shorts
- drawer
- falsies
- French knickers
- G-string
- girdle
- jock
- string vest
- teddy
- thermal underwear
- thong
- training bra
- underclothes
- vest
- VPL
- Y-fronts
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slip noun (FOR BOAT)
[ C ] a place where a boat or ship can be parked, between two piers
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Ports & docks
- anchorage
- basin
- boathouse
- derrick
- dockland
- dockyard
- free port
- harbour
- harbour master
- hoverport
- jetty
- marina
- pier
- pierhead
- port
- sea wall
- seaport
- slipway
- terminal
- the dockside
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slip noun (SMALL)
small and thin, usually because of being young:
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Describing people who are young
- adolescent
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- flower
- fresh-faced
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- knee-high
- little
- mother
- prepubescent
- pubescent
- small
- teen
- teenager
- time
- underage
- yoof
- young
- youthful
- yute
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slip noun (ESCAPE)
to escape from someone who is following or chasing you
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Running away and escaping
- abscond
- back away
- back off
- bail out
- be at large idiom
- be on the run idiom
- flee
- fugitive
- gaolbreak
- getaway
- go/be run to ground idiom
- heel
- leg
- loose
- scram
- shake sb/sth off
- shoot through
- skedaddle
- stand clear
- throw
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