Usually means: Gradual decline leads to disaster.
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  1. slippery slope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slippery slope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slippery slope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slippery slope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slippery-slope: Wordnik
  6. slippery slope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. slippery slope: Wiktionary
  8. slippery slope: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. slippery slope: Dictionary.com
  10. Slippery Slope, Slippery slope, The Slippery Slope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. slippery slope: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. slippery slope: Medical dictionary

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  1. slippery slope: Idioms
  2. slippery slope: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Slippery Slope: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (slippery slope)

noun:  (figuratively) A chain of events that, once initiated, cannot be halted; especially one in which the final outcome is undesirable or precarious.
noun:  (by extension) A logical fallacy in which a party asserts that a particular result will probably follow from a given decision or circumstance, without necessarily providing any rational argument for the likelihood of the assumed consequence.

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