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/slɪp ɔf/ Listen

verb

Slip v. t.

To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly. "He tried to slip a powder into her drink."

To omit; to loose by negligence. "And slip no advantage That my secure you."

To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper. "The branches also may be slipped and planted."

To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound. "Lucento slipped me like his greyhound."

To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.

To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.

To slip a cable. (Naut.) See under Cable.

To slip off, to take off quickly; as, to slip off a coat.

To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.

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"Slip off" Quotes from Famous Books

... feeling of sea-sickness, which the excitement of the scene had kept off, increased rapidly; and they were glad to slip off their upper clothes, and to throw themselves upon their berths before the ...

— Out on the Pampas - The Young Settlers • G. A. Henty

... wig of that dirty, waxen color so common to wigs. This one showed a continual inclination to slip off the owner's smooth, bald pate, and the Squire had frequently to adjust it. As his hair had been red, the wig did not accord with his face, and the hair ungrayed was doubly discordant with ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various

... are you afraid of? Nobody ever comes down here except us boys who want a bathe. Slip off your clothes and have a good dip. ...

— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn

... "Oho," I said, "you have a nest in there somewhere, and now you are trying to get me away from it." This was the only time I have ever known a loon to try that old mother bird's trick. Generally they slip off the nest while the canoe is yet half a mile away, and swim under water a long distance, and watch you silently from the other ...

— Wilderness Ways • William J Long

... effort to slip off to sleep. But the ideas returned one by one. The dull labour of his reasoning began again; and he soon found himself in a sort of acute reverie that displayed to him in the depths of his brain, the necessity for his marriage, along with the arguments ...

— Therese Raquin • Emile Zola

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