slips

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  1. intransitive verb To move smoothly, easily, and quietly: slipped into bed.
  2. intransitive verb To move stealthily; steal.
  3. intransitive verb To pass gradually, easily, or imperceptibly: "It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by” (Vita Sackville-West).
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  • Last season, once I forced myself to stop feeling sorry for the contestants (they VOLUNTEER! and they have a shot a $50K!), I loved every second of the exploitative falls, slips, and periously dangerous head-shots. —  Uncommon Misconception
  • The contracts serve as betting slips, and can be used to ameliorate risk or to secretly magnify it, and they magnify the apparent amount of money in an economic system. —  Baltimore City Paper
  • Your nip slips, boob slips, ass flashes, topless sunbathing, and, of course, seethrough tops are what give us hope for a better tomorrow. —  Fleshbot
  • An area on the fault line - approximately 35 kilometres under Vancouver Island - has also seen surprisingly regular "slips," accompanied by small tremors - roughly every 14 months. —  YubaNet.com
  • There can be harmless slips, as when she contrasts momentum - "just one number" - with position, which is specified by three numbers. —  American Scientist Online
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