slipping

Meaning of slipping

verb
  1. To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
  2. To err.
  3. To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
  4. To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
    A bone may slip out of place.
  5. To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
    She thanked the porter and slipped a ten-dollar bill into his hand.
  6. To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
  7. To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
    Some errors slipped into the appendix.
  8. To move down; to slide.
    Profits have slipped over the past six months.
  9. To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
  10. 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.
  11. To omit; to lose by negligence.
  12. To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
    to slip a piece of cloth or paper
  13. To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
    A horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
  14. To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
  15. To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun
  1. The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
    slippings and slidings

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Hyphenation of slipping

slip-ping

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • slipping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

slipping synonyms

Meaning slithering:

slithering

Anagrams of slipping

lippings, sippling

Words that rhyme with slipping

Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping

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