slipped Definition

slip¹
verb slipped, slipping

intr
1. To lose one's footing and slide accidentally.

Thesaurus: fall, tumble, trip, lurch, sprawl, do a turn.
intr
2. To make a slight mistake inadvertently rather than due to ignorance.
intr
3. To lapse morally.
tr & intr
4. Said of a clutch in a vehicle: to fail to engage correctly.
intr
5. To slide, move or drop accidentally.

Example: The dish slipped from his hands
6. To place smoothly, quietly or secretively.

Example: She slipped the envelope into her pocket
tr & intr
7. To move or cause to move quietly, smoothly or unobtrusively with a sliding motion.

Example: He slipped into the church in the middle of the service
Thesaurus: slide, glide, shift, move, creep, skate, sneak, slither, slink.
8. To pull free from someone or something smoothly and swiftly; to suddenly escape from them or it.

Example: The dog slipped its lead
Example: The name has slipped my mind
9. colloq
To give or pass secretly.
Example: She slipped him a fiver
intr
10. colloq
To lose one's former skill or expertise, or control of a situation.
11. To dislocate (a spinal disc).

noun

1. An instance of losing one's footing and sliding accidentally.
2. A minor and usually inadvertent mistake.

Thesaurus: error, mistake, indiscretion, oversight, lapse.
3. A slight error or transgression.
4. An escape.
5. A slight dislocation.
6. A landslide (sense 1).
7. A woman's undergarment, worn under a dress or skirt.
8. A loose covering for a pillow.
9. A slipway.
10a. cricket.
One of three fielders (first slip, second slip and third slip) standing near to and roughly in line with the wicket-keeper on the on side;
10b. cricket.
This fielding position.
Form: slips (often)

Idiom: give someone the slip

colloq
To escape from them skilfully or adroitly.

Idiom: let something slip

To reveal it accidentally.

To fail to take advantage of something, especially an opportunity.

Derivative: slip of the tongue
noun

A word, phrase, etc said or written in error when something else was intended.

Etymology: 13c: from German dialect slippen.

Phrasal Verb: slip in, out

To move quietly and unnoticed.

Phrasal Verb: slip into something

To put it on quickly and easily.

Phrasal Verb: slip off

To fall off.To withdraw or go away quietly.

Phrasal Verb: slip something off

To take it off quickly and easily.
Example: She slipped off her coat

Phrasal Verb: slip something on

To put it on loosely or hastily.

Phrasal Verb: slip up

To make a slight mistake inadvertently. See also slip-up.