Usually means: Difficult to maintain grip on.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word slippery:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. slippery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slippery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slippery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slippery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slippery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slippery, slippery: Wordnik
  7. slippery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slippery: Wiktionary
  9. slippery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slippery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slippery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slippery: Dictionary.com
  13. slippery: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slippery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slippery (song), Slippery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slippery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slippery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slippery: Rhymezone
  19. slippery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slippery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SLIPPERY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. slippery: Free Dictionary
  23. slippery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slippery: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. slippery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slippery: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slippery: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slippery: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Slippery, slippery: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See slipperier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
adjective:  (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
adjective:  (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
adjective:  Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
adjective:  (obsolete) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

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