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slip

English

  1. 🔊 the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
  2. 🔊 a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
  3. 🔊 a flight maneuver
  4. 🔊 a small sheet of paper
    “a receipt slip”
  5. 🔊 an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
    “he blamed his slip on the ice”
  6. 🔊 a young and slender person
    “he's a mere slip of a lad”
  7. 🔊 potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
  8. 🔊 an unexpected slide
  9. 🔊 artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
  10. 🔊 a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
  11. 🔊 bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
    “the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase”
  12. 🔊 a socially awkward or tactless act
  13. 🔊 a woman's sleeveless undergarment
  14. 🔊 a slippery smoothness
    “he could feel the slickness of the tiller”
  15. 🔊 a place where a craft can be made fast
  16. 🔊 insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
    “He slipped some money into the waiter's hand”
  17. 🔊 get worse
    “My grades are slipping”
  18. 🔊 pass out of one's memory
  19. 🔊 move smoothly and easily
    “the bolt slipped into place”
  20. 🔊 cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
    “he slipped the bolt into place”
  21. 🔊 move easily
    “slip into something comfortable”
  22. 🔊 pass on stealthily
    “He slipped me the key when nobody was looking”
  23. 🔊 move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
    “the wheels skidded against the sidewalk”
  24. 🔊 move stealthily
    “The ship slipped away in the darkness”
  25. 🔊 to make a mistake or be incorrect
  26. 🔊 move out of position
    “dislocate joints”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 esbarar to slip
  2. 🔊 resbalar to slip
  3. 🔊 desliz slip, lapse
  4. 🔊 aleznar slip, slide.
  5. 🔊 patinar to slip, slide
  6. 🔊 pantaleta slip, underpants
  7. 🔊 despiste slip, slip-up (error)
  8. 🔊 patinazo slip, error, mistake, cock-up
  9. 🔊 resbalón slip, skid, slide (accidental)
  10. 🔊 deslizar to slip, to slither (to move stealthily or discreetly, to move with ease)

Similar words

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