Slipthrift
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A spendthrift. obsolete
"Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies."
- 2 A gambling game that was invented in the early 1500s, similar to shuffleboard but played with coins on a board, and which was more commonly called shovegroat. obsolete
"What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift."
Synonyms
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More examples"Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies."
Etymology
From slip + thrift.