Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of slip.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A form of the preterit and past participle of slip.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The poor, dear, Mr. Beaumont had now been dead upwards of a twelve-month, and why should she be restrained, by a lath of a son, who was in the habit of turning up his eyes, like a divine, and looking like nothing human, if a word slipt from her, which was ever so little awry.
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If the young man comes from his master, and has formed no acquaintance or interest among the customers whom his master dealt with, he has, in short, slipt or lost one of the principal ends and reasons of his being an apprentice, in which he has spent seven years, and perhaps his friends given a considerable sum of money.
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The sword slipt from his hand; the hilt turned downwards.
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a space, and I thought I had missed him, when all of a sudden, he sprung right straight up an eend, his sword slipt through his hands up to the pint, and then he fell flat on his face atop of the blade, and it came straight out through his back.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
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She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipt, and she fell into the rapid stream.
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I think most of us were wondering what the hell Charlie was doing baracading himself in that room, when he could have just as easily slipt out of the door and closed it; OR, put on scuba gear; OR just jumped into the moon pool with Desmond and swam out!
The Tail Section » Your Voice: Desmond’s Flashes, Charlie’s Death, and Claire’s Rescue
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May 16, 2009 at 3:58 am oh her prolly jus slipt awai tew play anuvver rousing round ob nom teh fuds!
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Surprised and ashamed, his sublimity suddenly forsook him; his arms dropt, and his hands were slipt into his waistcoat pockets.
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She seized the letter, and was running away with it, when Mrs. Arlbery slipt out of the room, and Sir Sedley, shutting the door, half archly, half tenderly repeated, from the letter, 'My dear Lady Clarendel!'
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The man bowed, slipt a letter into his hand, and disappeared.
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