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单词 slip
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slipverb

uk/slɪp/us/slɪp/-pp-

slip verb (SLIDE)

B1 [ I ] to slide without intending to:

She slipped on the ice.
Careful you don't slip - there's water on the floor.
The razor slipped while he was shaving and he cut himself.

C2 [ I ] to move out of the correct position:

Her hat had slipped over one eye.
He could feel the rope slipping out of his grasp.

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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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General words for movement

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:

Just slip out of the room while nobody's looking.
She slipped between the cool cotton sheets and was soon asleep.
He slipped a piece of paper into my hand with his address on it.
[ + two objects ] If you slip the waiter some money/slip some money to the waiter he'll give you the best table.

More examples

  • 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:

Productivity in the factory has slipped noticeably in the last year.
The schedule has started to slip (= things are happening later than planned).
I don't know what went wrong, I must be slipping.

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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:

The ship slipped its moorings.

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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:

The dollar slipped against the Japanese yen.

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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)

slip sb's memory/mind
slip through sb's fingers
slip through the net

Phrasal verb(s)

slip away
slip into sth
slip out
slip out of sth
slip up

slipnoun

uk/slɪp/us/slɪp/

slip noun (PIECE OF PAPER)

[ C ] a small piece of paper:

a slip of paper
If you want to order a book fill out the green slip.

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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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Publishing: paper & stationery

slip noun (MISTAKE)

[ C ] a small mistake:

She's made one or two slips - mainly spelling errors - but it's basically well written.

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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:

One slip meant a long tumble to the rocks below.

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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:

A slip in the value of the U.S. dollar helped push prices higher.
a slip in standards

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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)

slip of a sth old-fashioned

small and thin, usually because of being young:

I knew her when she was a slip of a girl.

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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)

give sb the slip informal

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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Idiom(s)

slip of the tongue
there's many a slip twixt cup and lip

slipverb

us/slɪp/-pp-

slip verb (SLIDE)

[ I ] to slide suddenly and without intending to:

He slipped on an icy sidewalk and broke his hip.
The blanket began to slip off my shoulders.

slip verb (MOVE EASILY)

[ I/T ] to move easily and quietly so you are not noticed, or to move something easily into position:

[ I always + adv/prep ] He was able to slip out of the room without disturbing anyone.
[ T always + adv/prep ] Ben slipped the credit card into the machine.
[ I always + adv/prep ] fig. While I napped in my chair, the hours slipped by.

[ I/T ] If you slip something to someone, you give it to that person without attracting attention:

[ T always + adv/prep ] I slipped some money to the maitre d’ to get a table.
[ T always + adv/prep ] She slipped her hand into his.

slip verb (GET WORSE)

[ I ] to change to a worse state or condition:

We’ve slipped even further behind schedule.
After slipping into a coma, he never woke up.

slip verb (ESCAPE)

[ I/T ] to get away from or get free from something:

[ T ] The dog slipped its leash and ran off.
[ I always + adv/prep ] The ball slipped through my fingers.

Idiom(s)

a slip of the tongue
something slips your mind
something slips through your fingers
someone slips through your fingers

Phrasal verb(s)

slip away
slip away
slip into something
slip off something
slip on something
slip out
slip out (something)
slip out of something
slip up

slipnoun [ C ]

us/slɪp/

slip noun [ C ] (PIECE OF PAPER)

a small piece of paper:

You get a slip from the cash machine when you take out money.

slip noun [ C ] (MISTAKE)

a mistake that someone makes when not being careful:

She has made some slips lately that show she’s thinking about other things.

slip noun [ C ] (UNDERWEAR)

women’s underwear that is shaped like a skirt or a dress

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