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Adjective slipping has 1 sense
  1. slipping, slithering - moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
    Antonym: nonslippery (indirect, via slippery)
,Verb slip has 9 senses
  1. steal, slip - move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness"
    --1 is one way to move
    Derived forms: noun slip13, noun slip15
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. slip - insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"
    --2 is one way to     insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something PP
  3. skid, slip, slue, slew, slide - move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
    --3 is one way to glide
    Derived form: noun slip13
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  4. slip, drop off, drop away, fall away - get worse; "My grades are slipping"
    --4 is one way to worsen, decline
    Derived form: noun slippage2
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
  5. slip - move smoothly and easily
    --5 is one way to     escape, get away, break loose
    Derived form: noun slip14
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP
  6. err, mistake, slip - to make a mistake or be incorrect
    Derived form: noun slip2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  7. slip, sneak - pass on stealthily; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"
    --7 is one way to pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
    Sample sentences:
    They slip the food to the people
    They slip the people the food
  8. slip, slip one's mind - pass out of one's memory
    --8 is one way to forget, block, blank out, draw a blank
    Derived form: noun slip2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  9. dislocate, luxate, splay, slip - move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
    --9 is one way to move, displace
    Derived forms: noun slip13, noun slippage3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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