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Adjective slipping has 1 sense
- slipping, slithering - moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
Antonym: nonslippery (indirect, via slippery)
Verb slip has 9 senses
- steal, slip - move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness"
--1 is one way to move
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- slip - insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
--2 is one way to insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- skid, slip, slue, slew, slide - move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
--3 is one way to glide
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- slip, drop off, drop away, fall away - get worse; "My grades are slipping"
--4 is one way to worsen, decline
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- slip - move smoothly and easily
--5 is one way to escape, get away, break loose
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- err, mistake, slip - to make a mistake or be incorrect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- slip, sneak - pass on stealthily; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"
--7 is one way to pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
Sample sentences:
They slip the food to the people
They slip the people the food
- slip, slip one's mind - pass out of one's memory
--8 is one way to forget, block, blank out, draw a blank
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Something ----s
- dislocate, luxate, splay, slip - move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
--9 is one way to move, displace
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Somebody ----s something
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