slip
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: slĭp, IPA(key): /slɪp/Category:English 1-syllable words#SLIPCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SLIPAudio (US): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#SLIPAudio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪpCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪp#SLIPCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪp/1 syllable#SLIP
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SLIPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SLIP slippen, probably from Middle Low GermanCategory:English terms derived from Middle Low German#SLIP slippen, from Old SaxonCategory:English terms derived from Old Saxon#SLIP *slippian, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SLIP *slippjan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SLIP *slipjaną (“to glide”), an iterative form of *slīpaną (“to slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *sleyb- (“slimy; to slide”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), or related to Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SLIP *slībaną (“to split”); related to Old English slipor (“slippery”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian slipje (“to slip”), Dutch slippen (“to slip”), German Low German slippen.
Verb
slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped or (obsolete) slipt)Category:English lemmas#SLIPCategory:English verbs#SLIPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- 1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184:
- [...] 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, […]Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao’s Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP) To err.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticus 19:16:
- There is one that slippeth in his speach, but not from his heart, and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- A bone may slip out of place.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- I caught the thief, but he slipped my grasp and ran away.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- 1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter XI. The Apprehending, Examination, and Imprisonment of Jack, for Suspicion of Poisoning.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 119:
- Tvvo other VVitneſſes gave the follovving Evidence; That in his officious Attendance upon his Miſtreſs, he had try'd to ſlip a Povvder into her Drink, and that he vvas once catch'd endeavouring to ſtifle her vvith a Pillovv as ſhe vvas aſleep; […]Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:
- “This is a very urgent message for the countess’ ears alone,” replied Rokoff. “Tell her that she must arise and slip something about her and come to the telephone. I shall call up again in five minutes.”Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- Synonym: slink
- Some errors slipped into the appendix.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Thrice the flitting shadow slipped away.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, canto II:
- Thus one tradesman slips away, / To give his partner fairer play.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- We slipped along the hedges, noiseless and swift […]Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 1981 December 12, Scott Tucker, “Bring On The Cannon”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 5:
- Keith wants to have it both ways. He has engaged me in a political debate, but when his politics are challenged he slips behind a smoke-screen of anti-intellectualism.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 2020, Dagulf Loptson, Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer:
- He was grey and had eight legs, and could travel anywhere and slip into any corner of 9 worlds. For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- Profits have slipped over the past six months.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport:
- The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP, huntingCategory:en:Hunting#SLIP, falconryCategory:en:Falconry#SLIP) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Lucento slipped me like his greyhound.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], translated by H. L. Brækstad, Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 78:
- 'Well, it was one morning early in the spring,' said Lars, 'that I started for Linderudsœter, where I slipped Rap, and he was soon in full cry and made the hillside ring.'Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SLIP, aviationCategory:en:Aviation#SLIP, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”)Category:English clippings#SLIP.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP, cookingCategory:en:Cooking#SLIP) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLIP) To omit; to lose by negligence.
- 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- And slip no advantage / That may secure you.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- to slip a piece of cloth or paperCategory:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
- The branches also may be slipped and planted.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SLIP, businessCategory:en:Business#SLIP) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- 2005, Raj Karamchedu, It's Not About the Technology:
- We have been consistently slipping the product release schedules.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 2013, Robert Galen, Software Endgames:
- If you are going to slip the schedule, make it a big slip and make it early in your endgame effort so that your stakeholders can respond and adjust around you.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 2020 July 1, Chris Rayner tells Richard Clinnick, “High Speed 2 is speeding up …”, in Rail, page 65:
- As for trains, the contract was due to be awarded last year, but Rayner confirms that this has slipped and will now be awarded next year.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
Translations
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Noun

slip (plural slips)Category:English lemmas#SLIPCategory:English nouns#SLIPCategory:English countable nouns#SLIPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- An act or instance of slipping.
- I had a slip on the ice and bruised my hip.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- A mistake or error.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- This good man's slip mended his pace to martyrdom.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 1906, James George Frazer, Attis, Otis, Osiris, volume 1, page 295:
- In quoting this passage I have taken the liberty to correct a grammatical slip.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SLIP) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SLIP, aviationCategory:en:Aviation#SLIP) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#SLIP) A slipway.
- (medicineCategory:en:Medicine#SLIP) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- (cricketCategory:en:Cricket#SLIP) 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.)
- He took a screamer at slip.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- 1852, Samuel Baker, The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon:
- We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- He gave the warden the slip and escaped from the prison.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- 1669 February 14 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 4th, 1668–1669”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
- This morning I made a slip from the Office to White Hall.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (aviationCategory:en:Aviation#SLIP) Clipping of sideslipCategory:English clippings#SLIP.
- (printingCategory:en:Printing#SLIP, datedCategory:English dated terms#SLIP) A portion of the columns of a newspaper, etc., struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#SLIP) A child's pinafore.
- An outside covering or case.
- a pillow slipCategory:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- the slip or sheath of a swordCategory:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLIP) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- ROMEO: […] Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
MERCUTIO:The slip, sir, the slip. Can you not conceive?
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- 1667, William Petty, An apparatus to the history of the common practices of dying:
- the Grindstone, commonly called Slipp, is used to the same purpose in dying of Silks.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (UKCategory:British English#SLIP, datedCategory:English dated terms#SLIP) A narrow passage between buildings.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- 1826, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Theatres of London, page 65:
- The gallery contains nine rows of seats, besides those in the slips.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (USCategory:American English#SLIP) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (miningCategory:en:Mining#SLIP) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.[1]
- (engineeringCategory:en:Engineering#SLIP) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (electricityCategory:en:Electricity#SLIP) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- (telecommunicationsCategory:en:Telecommunications#SLIP) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A fish, the sole.
- (crosswordingCategory:en:Crosswording#SLIP) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- 1966, Ximenes, Ximenes On The Art Of The Crossword:
- After about a dozen competitions someone suggested that a slip should be sent round to those who applied for it, containing in full the clues of all prizewinners and of those highly commended (there was only room for the first prizewinner’s clue in the paper).Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 2009 June 23, Dean Olsher, From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- Manley is also a regular at the top of the Azed slip. As the two men talked, they quoted memorable clues as if they were lines of poetry.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- 2013 March 25, Jonathan Crowther, “Azed slip No 2,126”, in The Guardian:
- Over the years I have given my views several times on this issue, both in the slips and in my 2006 book A-Z of Crosswords, but it will do no harm to repeat them yet again.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (undergarment): full slip, waist slip
Translations
Derived terms
- afterslip
- Albany slip
- antislip, anti-slip
- atslip
- bank slip
- blue slip
- brick slip
- buck slip
- cover slip
- coverslip
- fly slip
- forslip
- forward slip
- Freudian slip
- give someone the slip
- green slip
- gymslip
- half slip
- incontinence slip
- landslip
- leg slip
- let slip
- let something slip
- limited-slip differential
- line slip
- long-slip
- mag slip
- mag-slip
- microslip
- mouse slip
- nip slip
- nip-slip
- nonslip
- non-slip
- off-slip
- on-slip
- outslip
- overslip
- overslop
- pay-in slip
- payslip
- permission slip
- pillowslip
- playslip
- psychological slip
- route slip
- routing slip
- sideslip
- side-slip
- slip and slide
- slip-and-slide
- slip away
- slip back
- slipboard
- slip box
- slip by
- slip case
- slip-case
- slipcase
- slipcasting
- slip coach
- slipcoat
- slipcover
- slip-cueing
- slip dock
- slip down
- slip dress
- slipface
- slip face
- slipform
- slip-halter
- sliphead
- slip in
- slip into
- slip into something more comfortable
- slip it to
- slipjoint
- slip knot
- slip lane
- slipless
- slipmat
- slipmouth
- slip noose
- slip off
- slip off someone's tongue
- slip of the pen
- slip of the tongue
- slip-on
- slip one past
- slip one's mind
- slip one's wind
- slip opinion
- slip out
- slipover
- slippage
- slip past
- slipped disc
- slipper
- slippery
- slippy
- slip rail
- sliprail
- slip ring
- slip road
- slips and capture
- slip sheet
- slip sheet paper
- slipshod
- slipshoe
- slipskin
- slipslop
- slipsole
- slip someone a length
- slip someone's mind
- slip steward
- slipstick
- slip stitch
- slipstitch
- slipstring
- slip the cable
- slipthrift
- slip through
- slip through one's fingers
- slip through someone's fingers
- slip through the cracks
- slip through the net
- slip under
- slip under the radar
- slip-up
- slip up, slip-up
- slipware
- slype
- snowslip
- stick-slip
- strike-slip fault
- tardy slip
- there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
- there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
- there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
- timeslip
- trip slip
- two slips of latinum
- underslip
- unslip
- voting slip
- wheelslip
Etymology 2
Probably from Middle DutchCategory:English terms derived from Middle Dutch#SLIP slippe or Middle Low GermanCategory:English terms derived from Middle Low German#SLIP slippe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SLIP *slīban (“to split”).
Noun
slip (plural slips)Category:English lemmas#SLIPCategory:English nouns#SLIPCategory:English countable nouns#SLIPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- a slip from a vineCategory:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 322:
- "So much for auguries," said Emily, pointing to a young geranium, which was growing in vigour below. "The day before I left home, I planted that slip, and, in idea, linked my futurity with the slight shrub, saying, If it flourishes, so shall I—if it dies, I shall die too. See how luxuriantly it blooms!"Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLIP) A descendant, a scion.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- a native slip to us from foreign seedsCategory:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- She couldn't hurt a fly, young slip of a girl that she is.Category:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- A long, thin piece of something.
- 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 62:
- Never, nevermore / Shall lone Œnone see the morning mist / Sweep thro' them—never see them overlaid / With narrow moonlit slips of silver cloud, / Between the loud stream and the trembling stars.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a salary slipCategory:English terms with usage examples#SLIP
- (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.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SLIPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SLIP slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SLIPCategory:English terms derived from Old English#SLIP slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SLIP *sleupan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SLIP *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SLIP *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).
Compare Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide”), Old English cūslyppe, cūsloppe (“cowslip”).
Noun
slip (countable and uncountable, plural slips)Category:English lemmas#SLIPCategory:English nouns#SLIPCategory:English uncountable nouns#SLIPCategory:English countable nouns#SLIPCategory:English countable nouns#SLIPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- (ceramicsCategory:en:Ceramics#SLIP) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 172:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SLIP
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SLIP) Mud, slime.
Translations
References
- ↑ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Slip”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “slip”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “slip”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
Category:en:Underwear#SLIPDutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slɪp/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#SLIPAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: slip
- Rhymes: -ɪpCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɪp#SLIPCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɪp/1 syllable#SLIP
Etymology 1
From EnglishCategory:Dutch terms derived from English#SLIP slip, probably via FrenchCategory:Dutch terms derived from French#SLIP slip. The English word may itself be derived from Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#SLIP slippen (etymology 3 and 4) below.
Noun
slip f (plural slips, diminutive slipje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#SLIPCategory:Dutch nouns#SLIPCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#SLIPCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Dutch feminine nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- a pair of briefs, a short type of underpants which covers the buttocks but nothing below
- (by extension, for women) a pair of knickers or panties, any female underpants
Etymology 2
From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#SLIPCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#SLIP slippe, sleppe, probably ultimately related to Proto-West GermanicCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SLIP *slīban (“to split”). Related with German Schlips (“necktie”).
Noun
slip f (plural slippen, diminutive slipje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#SLIPCategory:Dutch nouns#SLIPCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#SLIPCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Dutch feminine nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- tail, part of an upper garment hanging below the waist
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: slip (dated)
Etymology 3
Deverbal from slippenCategory:Dutch deverbals#SLIP.
Noun
slip m (uncountable, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#SLIPCategory:Dutch nouns#SLIPCategory:Dutch uncountable nouns#SLIPCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- skid, an act or instance of slipping
Descendants
- → Indonesian: slip
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
slipCategory:Dutch non-lemma forms#SLIPCategory:Dutch verb forms#SLIPCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- inflection of slippen:
Anagrams
Category:nl:Clothing#SLIPFrench
Etymology
From EnglishCategory:French terms derived from English#SLIP slip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slip/Category:French 1-syllable words#SLIPCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
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Noun
slip m (plural slips)Category:French lemmas#SLIPCategory:French nouns#SLIPCategory:French countable nouns#SLIPCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:French masculine nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- briefs (men's underpants)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “slip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Category:fr:Underwear#SLIPIndonesian
Etymology 1
- From DutchCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch#SLIPCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Dutch#SLIP slip, the deverbal of slippen. Apparently from Middle Low GermanCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Middle Low German#SLIP slippen. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”).
- Semantic loan from EnglishCategory:Indonesian semantic loans from English#SLIPCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#SLIP slip (“small piece of paper”) for sense of small piece of paper, which came from above.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈslip/ [ˈslɪp̚]Category:Indonesian 1-syllable words#SLIPCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
- Rhymes: -ipCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ip#SLIPCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/ip/1 syllable#SLIP
- Syllabification: slip
Noun
slip (plural slip-slip)Category:Indonesian lemmas#SLIPCategory:Indonesian nouns#SLIPCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- slip:
- an act or instance of slipping
- Synonyms: tergelincir, selip
- small piece of paper
- an act or instance of slipping
Etymology 2
From EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from English#SLIPCategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#SLIP slip, from Middle EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Middle English#SLIP slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Old English#SLIP slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-GermanicCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SLIP *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-GermanicCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SLIP *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SLIP *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈslip]Category:Indonesian 1-syllable words#SLIPCategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
- Hyphenation: slip
Noun
slip (plural slip-slip)Category:Indonesian lemmas#SLIPCategory:Indonesian nouns#SLIPCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- (archaeologyCategory:id:Archaeology#SLIP, ceramicsCategory:id:Ceramics#SLIP) slip: a thin, slippery mix of clay and water
Further reading
- “slip”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Italian terms borrowed from French#SLIPCategory:Italian terms derived from French#SLIP, from EnglishCategory:Italian terms derived from English#SLIP slip.
Pronunciation
Noun
slip m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#SLIPCategory:Italian nouns#SLIPCategory:Italian countable nouns#SLIPCategory:Italian indeclinable nouns#SLIPCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Italian masculine nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- men's or women's underpants (knickers, panties)
- swimming trunks
References
- ↑ slip in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
slipCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#SLIPCategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#SLIPCategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- imperative of slipe
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#SLIPCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#SLIP slip or EnglishCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from English#SLIPCategory:Romanian terms derived from English#SLIP slip.
Noun
slip n (plural slipuri)Category:Romanian lemmas#SLIPCategory:Romanian nouns#SLIPCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#SLIPCategory:Romanian countable nouns#SLIPCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | slip | slipul | slipuri | slipurile |
| genitive-dative | slip | slipului | slipuri | slipurilor |
| vocative | slipule | slipurilor | ||
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-SlavicCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#SLIPCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#SLIP *slěpъ.
Adjective
slip (Cyrillic spelling слип)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#SLIPCategory:Serbo-Croatian adjectives#SLIPCategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian adjective entries#SLIPCategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- (ChakavianCategory:Chakavian Serbo-Croatian#SLIP, IkavianCategory:Ikavian Serbo-Croatian#SLIP) blind
- 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):
- Slipi jeste [ludujući],
vaše boge verujući
kî nigdare vas ne sliše
ni vas koga [kad] utiše.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- late 15th century or early 16th century, Šiško Menčetić, Ako ćeš, Stijepo moj, za mene što stvorit:
- Ter je prem sasma slip tko ne zri sunačce
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1546, Petar Zoranić, Planine:
- To j' uzrok da travi tako slip bog ljubven,Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with quotations#SLIPCategory:Requests for translations of Serbo-Croatian quotations#SLIP
a ne kako pravi tkogod nenaučen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1559, Marin Držić, Hekuba:
- Ma ovo nadvor gre u srdžbi i u gnijevu vas,Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with quotations#SLIPCategory:Requests for translations of Serbo-Croatian quotations#SLIP
krv s oči slipih tre, s oružjem gre put nas;- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1630s, Ivan Gundulić, Osman:
- I gdi unutri o mrak slipi
Nepoznat se junak hvata- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1759, Antun Kanižlić
- Zato slipi, koji srići tamjan nose
- i u tugah svojih pomoć od nje prose;
- slipi, koji scine, da je ona kuća,
- gdi ona prosine, svitla i moguća,
- i da dili blago slipa vila svima,
- i kad joj je drago, opet uzme njima.
- Zato slipi, koji srići tamjan nose
- 1762, Matija Antun Relković, Satir iliti divji čovik:
- Zar ste slipi, tere ne vidite?Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with quotations#SLIPCategory:Requests for translations of Serbo-Croatian quotations#SLIP
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):
Etymology 2
Neologism, from English slip (of paper).
Noun
slip m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling слип)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#SLIPCategory:Serbo-Croatian nouns#SLIPCategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun entries#SLIPCategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns#SLIPCategory:Requests for animacy in Serbo-Croatian entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- Credit or debit card receipt
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from FrenchCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from French#SLIPCategory:Spanish unadapted borrowings from French#SLIPCategory:Spanish terms derived from French#SLIP slip, from EnglishCategory:Spanish terms derived from English#SLIP slip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈslip/ [ˈslip], [ˈzlip]Category:Spanish 1-syllable words#SLIPCategory:Spanish 1-syllable words#SLIPCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
- Rhymes: -ipCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ip#SLIPCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ip/1 syllable#SLIP
- Syllabification: slip
- IPA(key): /esˈlip/ [esˈlip], [eˈzlip]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#SLIPCategory:Spanish 2-syllable words#SLIPCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#SLIP
Noun
slip m (plural slip)Category:Spanish lemmas#SLIPCategory:Spanish nouns#SLIPCategory:Spanish countable nouns#SLIPCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- male briefs
- female underpants(less usual meaning)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “slip”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “slip”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
Swedish


Etymology 1
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from English#SLIPCategory:Swedish terms derived from English#SLIP slip. Attested since 1872.
Noun
slip cCategory:Swedish lemmas#SLIPCategory:Swedish nouns#SLIPCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | slip | slips |
| definite | slipen | slipens | |
| plural | indefinite | slipar | slipars |
| definite | sliparna | sliparnas |
See also
- stapel (“stocks”)
Etymology 2
Deverbal from slipaCategory:Swedish deverbals#SLIP.
Noun
slip cCategory:Swedish lemmas#SLIPCategory:Swedish nouns#SLIPCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- a grinder, a sander (tool)Category:sv:Rub#SLIP
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | slip | slips |
| definite | slipen | slipens | |
| plural | indefinite | slipar | slipars |
| definite | sliparna | sliparnas |
Derived terms
- slipmaskin (“sander”)
- vinkelslip (“angle grinder”)
References
- “slip”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “slip”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “slip”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- slip in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From EnglishCategory:Tok Pisin terms derived from English#SLIP sleep.
Verb
slipCategory:Tok Pisin lemmas#SLIPCategory:Tok Pisin verbs#SLIPCategory:Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
- sleep
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:
- Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.Category:Tok Pisin terms with quotations#SLIP
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Volapük terms borrowed from English#SLIPCategory:Volapük terms derived from English#SLIP sleep.
Pronunciation
Noun
slip (genitive slipa, plural slips)Category:Volapük lemmas#SLIPCategory:Volapük nouns#SLIPCategory:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#SLIPCategory:Pages with entries#SLIPCategory:Pages with 12 entries#SLIP
