Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Slippery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slippery.
- Sloppy.
- Full of slips: said of rocks which are full of joints or cracks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slippery.
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- adjective
Slippery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
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Examples
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She has one size 5 pair she calls her "slippy" pants because when she tries to run in them, they slip off.
Today's Post Becca 2007
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A thin layer of this having been placed in the bottom of the ditch when grading, a slight covering of the same about the tiles will so encase them as to prevent the entrance of the more "slippy" soil.
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The back is quite slippy which is a minor problem, both in the hand and, when it's left laying around on things.
British Blogs Jason Slater Technology Blog 2010
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The OpenLayers library can work as the client half of an AJAX map application, including modern features such as "slippy" maps.
Slashgeo 2009
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Good strong challenge by Gonzalez who stays on his feet - unusually, as the defenders seem to be enjoying the opportunity to practice their sliding tackles on the slippy surface.53 mins: Keane breaks on the right - he seems to have switched flanks from the first half - but his cross comes to nothing.54 mins: Carr shoots poorly over the bar.
LA Galaxy 1-0 Houston Dynamo - as it happened! | MLS Cup final 2011 2011
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Whoops, mind that slippy cell floor son. on September 8, 2009 at 8: 21 pm inspectorgadget
Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Alexandre on 24 Mar 2009 at 6: 54 pm # wait, are those the handles?! but slippy hands …!
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Hall gets out in time to clear, but that was a hairy moment on a slippy pitch.26 mins: Great curving ball into the area from Beckham on the right, Cristman does better here, breaking clear but heading over under a challenge from Hainault.
LA Galaxy 1-0 Houston Dynamo - as it happened! | MLS Cup final 2011 2011
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As they ship neared land, Terra fingered the slippy trigger on her hand-me-down rifle.
Perish The Thought 2010
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She bowled over most of a hockey team, who wobbled on their slippy hover-skates like littlies.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word slippy
(adjective) - Slippery. Not an abbreviation, but a pure Saxon word, and as shown by Mr. Todd, of Old English usage, not withstanding which the great lexicographer characterized it as a barbarous provincial term, from slip. --John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Words, 1825
April 22, 2018