slip
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Is slip a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.Examples: "[...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, […]"; "Fernando Amorebieta seemed to have checked him, but a stepover created a fraction of room that became significant as the defender slipped, giving Falcao just enough space to curl a superb finish into the top corner."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To err.Examples: "There is one that slippeth in his speach, but not from his heart, and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?"intransitive
3. (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.intransitive
4. (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.Examples: "A bone may slip out of place."intransitive
5. (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.Examples: "I caught the thief, but he slipped my grasp and ran away."transitive
6. (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.Examples: "She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand."transitive
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
2. (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
3. (nautical) A slipway.
4. (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.Synonyms: lapse
5. (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)Examples: "He took a screamer at slip."
6. (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.abbreviationalt-ofclipping
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.Examples: "a native slip to us from foreign seeds"obsolete
2. (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
noun (English)
1. (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.Examples: "The Wasserpfeife or water-whistle from Moravia was a bird whistle made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. […] The bird is of a grey and brown mottled glaze with sgraffito markings and touches of green slip."countableuncountable
2. (obsolete) Mud, slime.countableobsoleteuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary