verb
- Move stealthily.
- usage: "The ship slipped away in the darkness"
- Insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly.
- usage: "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
- synonyms: slip
- Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.
- usage: "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
- Get worse.
- usage: "My grades are slipping"
- Move smoothly and easily.
- usage: "the bolt slipped into place"; "water slipped from the polished marble"
- synonyms: slip
- To make a mistake or be incorrect.
- Pass on stealthily.
- usage: "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"
- Move easily.
- usage: "slip into something comfortable"
- synonyms: slip
- Cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion.
- usage: "he slipped the bolt into place"
- synonyms: slip
- Pass out of one's memory.
- synonyms: slip, slip one's mind
- Move out of position.
- usage: "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
adjective
- Moving as on a slippery surface.
- usage: "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
- synonyms: slithering
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