slip

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To slide and lose your balance suddenly.

   She slipped on the wet floor and fell.

2. 2
   noun

   A small accident in which you slide and almost fall.

   I blamed my slip on the ice.

3. 3
   verb

   To put or move something quickly and quietly.

   I slipped some money into the waiter's hand.

4. 4
   noun

   A small piece of paper.

   She handed me a slip with the address written on it.

5. 5
   verb

   To get worse gradually.

   My grades have been slipping this term.

Common collocations

• slip noose Noun + noun
• slip off Verb + adverb

From Middle English slyp, slep, slyppe, from Old English slyp, slyppe, slipa (“a viscous, slimy substance”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan, from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”), possibly connected with Proto-Indo-European *slewb-, *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, crawl”); or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *slippijaną (“to glide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to glide”). Compare Old English slūpan (“to slip, glide”), Old English cūslyppe, cūsloppe (“cowslip”).

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