| slip | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | Synonyms: sideslip |
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| (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism |
| (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, elusion |
| (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, skid |
| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, parapraxis, slip-up |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, teddy |
| (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, pillowcase |
| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: strip |
| (noun) a small sheet of paper | Synonyms: slip of paper |
| (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slipperiness |
| (noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, mooring |
| (noun) a young and slender person | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics | - |
| (verb) fall to a lower standard | Synonyms: drop away, drop off, fall away |
| (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, splay |
| (verb) insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly | - |
| (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, mistake |
| (verb) pass out of one's memory | Synonyms: slip one's mind |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slue |
| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: steal |
| (verb) move easily | - |
| (verb) move smoothly and easily | - |
| (verb) cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion | - |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: sneak |
| slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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| slipknot | (noun) a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made | - |
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| slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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| slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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| (noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
| (noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
| slipper | (noun) low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors | Synonyms: carpet slipper |
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| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slider |
| slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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| slipperiness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slip |
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| (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness |
| slipperwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: calceolaria |
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| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| slippy | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippery |
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| slipshod | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy |
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| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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