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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Slippery.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sloppy.
  • Slippery.
  • Full of slips: said of rocks which are full of joints or cracks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Slippery.

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  • adjective Slippery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide

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Examples

  • She has one size 5 pair she calls her "slippy" pants because when she tries to run in them, they slip off.

    Today's Post Becca 2007

  • A thin layer of this having been placed in the bottom of the ditch when grading, a slight covering of the same about the tiles will so encase them as to prevent the entrance of the more "slippy" soil.

    Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health 1865

  • The back is quite slippy which is a minor problem, both in the hand and, when it's left laying around on things.

    British Blogs Jason Slater Technology Blog 2010

  • The OpenLayers library can work as the client half of an AJAX map application, including modern features such as "slippy" maps.

    Slashgeo 2009

  • Good strong challenge by Gonzalez who stays on his feet - unusually, as the defenders seem to be enjoying the opportunity to practice their sliding tackles on the slippy surface.53 mins: Keane breaks on the right - he seems to have switched flanks from the first half - but his cross comes to nothing.54 mins: Carr shoots poorly over the bar.

    LA Galaxy 1-0 Houston Dynamo - as it happened! | MLS Cup final 2011 2011

  • Whoops, mind that slippy cell floor son. on September 8, 2009 at 8: 21 pm inspectorgadget

    Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Alexandre on 24 Mar 2009 at 6: 54 pm # wait, are those the handles?! but slippy hands …!

    Flower Faucet by Hego WaterDesign 2009

  • Hall gets out in time to clear, but that was a hairy moment on a slippy pitch.26 mins: Great curving ball into the area from Beckham on the right, Cristman does better here, breaking clear but heading over under a challenge from Hainault.

    LA Galaxy 1-0 Houston Dynamo - as it happened! | MLS Cup final 2011 2011

  • As they ship neared land, Terra fingered the slippy trigger on her hand-me-down rifle.

    Perish The Thought 2010

  • She bowled over most of a hockey team, who wobbled on their slippy hover-skates like littlies.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

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  • (adjective) - Slippery. Not an abbreviation, but a pure Saxon word, and as shown by Mr. Todd, of Old English usage, not withstanding which the great lexicographer characterized it as a barbarous provincial term, from slip. --John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825

    April 22, 2018