Definition of Slip

Verb: slip (slipped,slipping)  slip

  1. Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
    "the wheels slipped against the pavement";
    - skid, slue, slew, slide
     
  2. Move stealthily
    "The ship slipped away in the darkness";
    - steal
     
  3. Insert inconspicuously, quickly or quietly
    "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
     
  4. Get worse
    "My grades are slipping";
    - drop off, drop away, fall away
     
  5. Move smoothly and easily
    "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble"
     
  6. To make a mistake or be incorrect
    - err, mistake
     
  7. Pass on stealthily
    "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking";
    - sneak
     
  8. (of clothes) quickly put on or take off
    "slip into something comfortable"
     
  9. Cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
    "he slipped the bolt into place"
     
  10. Pass out of one's memory
    - slip one's mind
     
  11. Move out of position
    - dislocate, luxate, splay
Noun: slip  slip
  1. A socially awkward or tactless act
    - faux pas, gaffe, solecism, gaucherie
     
  2. A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
    - slip-up, miscue, parapraxis
     
  3. Potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
     
  4. A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
    - cutting
     
  5. A young and slender person
    "he's a mere slip of a lad"
     
  6. A place where a craft can be made fast
    - mooring, moorage, berth
     
  7. An accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
    "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"; "he blamed his slip on the ice";
    - trip
     
  8. A slippery smoothness
    "he could feel the slip of the tiller";
    - slickness, slick, slipperiness
     
  9. Artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
    - strip
     
  10. A small sheet of paper
    "a receipt slip";
    - slip of paper
     
  11. A woman's sleeveless undergarment
    - chemise, shimmy, shift, teddy
     
  12. Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
    "the burglar carried his loot in a slip";
    - case, pillowcase, pillow slip
     
  13. An unexpected slide
    - skid, sideslip
     
  14. A flight manoeuvre; aircraft slides sideways in the air
    - sideslip
     
  15. The act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
    - elusion, eluding

See also:
slinky
slipcase

Anagrams containing the word slip

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