Usually means: Loss of traction, movement error.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. slip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slip, slip, slip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. SLIP, slip, slip, slip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slip, slip: Wordnik
  7. slip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slip: Wiktionary
  9. slip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SLIP: Dictionary.com
  13. slip (n.), slip (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SLIP (programming language), SLIP, Slip (Better Call Saul), Slip (aerodynamic), Slip (aerodynamics), Slip (album), Slip (ceramics), Slip (clothing), Slip (cricket), Slip (horticulture), Slip (materials science), Slip (motors), Slip (needlework), Slip (telecommunication), Slip (treatment), Slip (vehicle dynamics), Slip, The Slip (album), The Slip (band), The Slip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slip: Rhymezone
  19. slip, slip (de), slip (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SLIP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. SLIP, slip: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Slip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. slip: Free Dictionary
  25. slip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. slip: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. SLIP: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. slip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slip: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Slip (aerodynamic), slip: Legal dictionary

Computing (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLIP: CCI Computer
  2. Slip: Game Dictionary
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SLIP: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  7. SLIP: ILC Internet Terms
  8. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  9. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  10. SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  11. Webopedia (No longer online)
  12. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  13. slip: Encyclopedia
  14. SLIP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  15. SLIP: Netlingo

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. slip: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SLIP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. slip: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slip: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slip, slip, slip, slip, slip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Slip, the slip: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slip: Sports Definitions

Tech (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. slip: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. SLIP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  3. Book Binding (No longer online)
  4. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)
  7. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  8. slip: Chapters in the Sky
  9. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  11. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  12. Slip: Pottery Studio
  13. SLIP: Web Hosting Glossary

(Note: See sliping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
verb:  (intransitive) To err.
verb:  (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
verb:  (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
verb:  (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
verb:  (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
verb:  (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
verb:  (transitive, cooking) 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.
verb:  (obsolete) To omit; to lose by negligence.
verb:  (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
verb:  To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
verb:  (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun:  An act or instance of slipping.
noun:  A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
noun:  A slipdress.
noun:  A mistake or error.
noun:  (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
noun:  (nautical) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
noun:  (nautical) A slipway.
noun:  (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
noun:  (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
noun:  A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
noun:  A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
noun:  An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
noun:  (printing, dated) A portion of the columns of a newspaper etc. struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
noun:  (dated) A child's pinafore.
noun:  An outside covering or case.
noun:  (obsolete) A counterfeit piece of money, made from brass covered with silver.
noun:  Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
noun:  A particular quantity of yarn.
noun:  (UK, dated) A narrow passage between buildings.
noun:  Either side of the gallery in a theater.
noun:  (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
noun:  (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
noun:  (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
noun:  (electrical) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
noun:  (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
noun:  A fish, the sole.
noun:  A twig or shoot; a cutting.
noun:  (obsolete) A descendant, a scion.
noun:  A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
noun:  A long, thin piece of something.
noun:  A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
noun:  (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
noun:  (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
noun:  (obsolete) Mud, slime.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).. [(aviation) To perform, or place an aircraft in, a sideslip.]
noun:  (aviation) Clipping of sideslip. [(aviation) A flight manoeuvre that uses opposing rudder and aileron inputs to move the aircraft sideways without turning it.]

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