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slip English

Meaning slip meaning

What does slip mean?
Definitions in simple English

slip Verb

— When something slides, or moves a small distance while touching what it's on, we say it slips. The hat slipped down until it covered her eyes. — When someone or something moves without wanting to move, we say it slips. My foot slipped when I stepped on some ice, and I almost fell. — When someone moves quickly and quietly so that other people won't see them move, we say the person slips. I slipped into the kitchen to start washing dishes while people were talking.

slip Noun

— A slip is a small mistake. — A slip is a small piece of paper.

slip

— verb move stealthily The ship slipped away in the darkness — verb insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly He slipped some money into the waiter's hand — verb (= skid) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner the wheels skidded against the sidewalk — verb get worse My grades are slipping — noun (= faux pas) a socially awkward or tactless act — verb move smoothly and easily the bolt slipped into place water slipped from the polished marble — noun a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc — verb (= mistake) to make a mistake or be incorrect — verb pass out of one's memory — verb cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion he slipped the bolt into place — verb move easily slip into something comfortable — verb pass on stealthily He slipped me the key when nobody was looking — noun the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) — noun a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air — noun a small sheet of paper a receipt slip — noun an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall he blamed his slip on the ice the jolt caused many slips and a few spills — noun potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics — noun a young and slender person he's a mere slip of a lad — noun (= cutting) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting — noun (= strip) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material — noun (= skid) an unexpected slide — noun (= pillowcase) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase — noun (= chemise) a woman's sleeveless undergarment — noun (= slickness) a slippery smoothness he could feel the slickness of the tiller — verb (= dislocate, luxate) move out of position dislocate joints the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically — noun (= mooring) a place where a craft can be made fast

Synonyms slip synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as slip?

slip English » English

slide glide skid stumble mistake error fall blunder trip strip fault petticoat lapse cutting be slippery underskirt tumble slither failure tag steal sneak shift err chemise case teddy slip-up skirt sideslip scion pillowcase miss lose one’s footing fall down creep ticket swerve solecism slippery slipperiness slick slice receipt pillow slip piece pass oversight omission mooring

SLIP English » English

serial line IP Serial Link IP Serial Line Internet Protocol

Topics slip topics

What do people use slip to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Mistake
Language and thought Think Remember

Forget
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice
Daily life Clothing

Women's clothing
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk with difficulty
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk with difficulty

Slip, slide
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
States Quantity Whole, complete

Piece
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Lower something
Social behavior Behavior Honest

Deceive
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Leave
Physical actions Arrange

Tie

Conjugation slip conjugation

How do you conjugate slip?

slip · verb

Examples slip examples

How do I use slip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The boss called Jim into his office and gave him his pink slip.
Slip on your shoes.
This is a secret just between you and me, so don't let it slip out.
This kind of shoe is apt to slip on wet ground.
Don't let this chance slip by.
You can slip through the fence on all fours.
His broken arm was the result of a slip on the ice.
She walked slowly for fear she should slip.
Don't let the chance slip!
This must have been some kind of Freudian slip.
She walked slowly so she wouldn't slip.
She let slip that she had found out about her brother's embarrassing little secret.
Tom talked too much and let the secret slip.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
A slip of the tongue is sometimes fatal to a politician.
Watch your step, or you will slip and fall.
He knows that his critics are waiting to pounce on any slip that he makes.
There was a pink slip waiting for her at the office.
Slip of the tongue.

Movie subtitles

There's not a lot of furniture, so there's plenty of room to slip and slide around in our socks like in Risky Business.
I'm gonna give myself a tardy slip.
Forgive me for giving you the slip. While Juve is at the Station, it is better that I am free to work on his behalf to see that justice is done as soon as possible.
MELITTA LET SLIP THAT YOU'RE A FAMOUS POET.
You'll be thankful if they slip a waterproof sheet. - around that Aunt Sally of a carcass of yours.
We gotta do it now or he might slip us again.
Listen, Lily, when you come home, slip up the back way.
We don't want any slip-ups.
Must have been a slip-up someplace.
Link hands. Keep close together, or he'll slip under your arm.
Slip down your wires!
I think you're beginning to slip, Kruger.
Let me see the slip.
Now, remember, a slip-up now would be fatal.
Thought you could slip one over on me, didn't you?
And one of these days he'll not slip away.
Keep close together, or he'll slip under your arm.
When did I ever let slip 15 thalers?
Do you mean to tell me that you're going to let 50,000 Guineas slip right thru your fingers?
Wires! Slip down your wires!
Anybody's tongue is liable to slip.
I'm going to look, listen, and pray that somebody makes a slip.
Just one slip.
All this time I've been waiting for someone to make a slip.
Now, we'll just slip this right over your head.
Making a call? I'll let it slip.
Slip out if you can.
You'll be thankful if they slip a waterproof sheet.
His friends will all slip away.
ALL RIGHT, EXPLAIN TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE JUST HOW YOU LET THAT PICTURE SLIP THROUGH YOUR FINGERS.
Give this slip to the casting director.
What are the chances for me to slip in and look around?
Bring it back here to me and I'll slip you the 5 bucks.

News and current affairs

With inflation - both headline and core - now on an accelerating path, Asian central banks can't afford to slip further behind the curve.
Or will prosperity slip through our fingers as greed and corruption lead us to deplete vital resources and degrade the natural environment on which human well-being depends?
Still, at times, Armstrong seems to slip into the sort of language he wishes to avoid.
We must not let it slip away.
This presented Iran with a golden opportunity to project itself as a regional hegemon, and Iran's leaders are unlikely to let this opportunity slip away.
Or the US could slip into recession (though modest growth is certainly the central scenario nowadays).
With membership achieved and EU money starting to pour in, leaders feel secure enough to let economic policy slip.
Perhaps this was a slip of the presidential tongue.
CAMBRIDGE - As the global economy stabilizes, there is a growing danger that the United States and China will slip back into their pre-crisis economic patterns, placing themselves and the rest of the world at risk.
One report by a Korean research institute shows that the Korean economy will slip into recession if the yen-dollar exchange rate nears 118, its average level back in 2007.
If oil prices rise much further - towards the peaks of 2008 - the advanced economies will slow sharply; many might even slip back into recession.
If an imposed solution fails, the entire region will begin to slip into a dangerous confrontation during the first years of Barack Obama's presidency.
But there is many a slip between Washington's mouth and Moscow's lip.
This time, however, we are determined not to slip up.
Given the potency of the recent oil-price shock, the risk is that inflation may temporarily slip into negative territory in the coming months.
Without determined efforts at political progress and unity, however, it will remain stuck in neutral - and could slip into reverse.
As anti-Musharraf sentiment grew within Pakistan, and repressive measures aimed at the judiciary and the press cost him ever more support among the intelligentsia, his hold on power began to slip.
They were, at that stage, much smaller and had an elongated shape that allowed them to slip between other cells.
Moreover, US schools, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, continue to slip down the global scale, constraining Americans' ability to benefit from globalization.
But they let it slip through their fingers.

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