Slip

//slɪp//

Synonyms for "slip" (775 found)

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Closest matches (155)

blooper case cutting err faux pas lapse mooring skid steal strip aberration accord adhesive tape administer adolescent advance afford afghan allot allow

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amplitude anachronism anchor anchorage anchorage ground atrocity avalanche avoidance avoiding reaction award babe baby backslide bad job balk band bandage bantam banty barbarism basin batten be all thumbs bed linen bedclothes bedcover bedding bedsheet bedspread belt berth bestow bestow on bevue bine birth blab blanket bloomer blue blueprint blunder blunder away blunder into blunder on blunder upon blurt out bobble boggle bonehead play boner boo boo boo-boo boob botch bough branch branchedness branchiness breach break away breakout breakwater breeze broad buck-passing buffalo robe bulkhead bull bulletin board bumble bungle burgeon butcher button camber card catalog card cellophane tape chemise chick china clay china stone chit circumvention clay cloth tape clothes clumsy performance coast cold-type proof colleen color proof come down come out with comfort comforter commit a gaffe communicate computer proof confer continue contour sheet counterpane cover coverlet coverlid crash creek creep crime crime against humanity cutie dame damoiselle damsel deadly sin deadwood deal deal out

Noun(15 words)

faux pas gaffe lapse berth blooper blunder boo-boo brat case chemise child cock-up crumb crusher crumb snatcher cutting

Strong matches (233)

decline defense mechanism degenerate delinquency demoiselle dereliction deteriorate deviate die diminutive dip disappear disc disclose dish out dislocate dispense divulge dock dockage

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dockyard document dodge dole dole out doll don donate downslide downswing downtrend downturn draw on drift drop drop off dry dock duck ease ebb eiderdown elapse elusion elusiveness embankment endure enormity enter equivocation erode error escape etourderie evasion evasive action evasiveness evil expire expose extend exuviate fade fail failure fall fall away fall into error fall off falloff false move false step fascia fault featherweight felony file filing card fillet filly film fingerling fireclay fitted sheet flagellum fledgling flight flight path flit float flounder flow flow on flub fluff flux fly foiling foot foozle forbearance forestalling forestallment fork fork out founder foundry proof frail friction tape frond frustration fumble gal galley galley proof gaucherie genocide get away get in getaway getting around getting round ghost gift gift with girdle girl girlie give give freely give out glaze glide glissade glissando go amiss go astray go awry go by go down go downhill go off go on go to pot go to the dogs go under go wrong goof grant groin gruel guilty act gumbo gumshoe hand out harbor harborage hash have a comedown haven heap heavy sin heifer help to hit a slump hit rock bottom hit the skids hook hopeful hoyden ice skate ice-skate impart impropriety inadvertence inadvertency index card indiscretion inexpiable sin infant infraction iniquity injury injustice issue jetty jeune fille jill jink junior junior miss jutty juvenal juvenile kaolin lam landing landing place landing stage landslide landslip lap robe lapsus calami lapsus linguae lass lassie last lath lavish leak leave let have let out let slip levee library catalog lightweight ligula

Noun(11 words)

defect eluding elusion error fault floater fluff fuckup gaucherie kid lapsus

Verb(5 words)

dislocate drop away drop off err fall away

Related words (387)

ligule limb linen list little missy loose thread lose lumber lurk mademoiselle magnetic tape maid maiden make a mistake malefaction malfeasance malum mar marina masking tape

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mere shadow mess mete mete out microcard microdot microfiche microfilm mini minikin minnow minny minor minor wrong mire misadventure miscalculate miscue misdeed misdemeanor misfeasance miss miss the mark misstep missy mistake mole molt mooring buoy moorings mortal sin motion-picture film mouse muck mud muddle mudhook muff murder mystik tape near miss near-miss neutrality nonfeasance nonintervention noninvolvement nose-dive note nubbin nymphet off day offence offense offer offshoot omission ooze outguessing outmaneuvering outrage outwitting oversight page proof paper pass pass by passing the buck patchwork quilt peccadillo peccancy peewee permission permit petticoat petuntse phonograph record piece pier pillow slip pillowcase plane plank plastic tape plate proof platter play havoc with plow the deep plummet pony porcelain clay port pour present press on press proof prevention proceed proffer progressive proof proof proof sheet protected anchorage pubescent pull pussyfoot put in quay quilt rail rain rake ramage ramification reach the depths refractory clay refraining render repro proof reveal revise ribband ribbon ride ride the sea road roads roadstead robe roll roll on roller skate roller-skate romp rug run run down run its course run on run out runaround runner runt sad work sag sail sapling sarment scape schoolgirl schoolmaid schoolmiss scion scoreboard scorecard scoresheet scotch tape scrap screw up scud seaport seawall seedling serve set shadow shake shaving shed sheet sheeting shell out shipyard shirk shoot shower shred shrimp shunning shunting off shy sideslip sidestep sidetracking sidle sin sin of commission sin of omission sinful act sink skate skateboard skeleton skew ski skim skin effect skin friction skirt skulk slat sled sleigh slick slickness slidder slide slide down slime slink slip in slip of the tongue slip of tongue slip up slippage slipup slither sliver slob slop slosh slough sludge slump slur slush small fry snake sneak in snip snippet snow snowslide snowslip soften soup spear spill spline splinter spoil spray spread sprig sprit sprout squash stagger stolon stone proof strake strap stray streak stream stripling strop stumble subdeb subdebutante subside subsidence subteen subteener sucker sweep swill switch taenia tape tape measure tapeline teenager teener teenybopper tender tendril thallus the runaround the slip throw off thwarting ticker tape ticket tit toboggan tomato tomboy tongue topple tort touch bottom transgression trespass trial impression trip tumble twig undergarments unutterable sin vandyke vanish vein venial sin videotape virgin vouchsafe wafer walk the waters wander wane wart wench wharf wisp wriggle wrong wrong step yield young creature young hopeful young person young thing younger youngest youngling youngster youth zigzag

Noun(28 words)

little one lulu mess-up miscue mistake moorage mooring muck-up parapraxis pillow slip pillowcase screwup shift shimmy sideslip skid slick slickness slip of paper slip-up

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slipperiness solecism strip stumble teddy thinko trip young'un

Verb(11 words)

luxate mistake skid slew slide slink slip one's mind slue sneak splay steal

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

67 entries

act airplane maneuver anchorage anchorage ground artefact artifact bed linen blank out block bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo botch break loose

Showing 16 of 67 words.

More specific

2 entries

full slip waist slip

Antonyms

7 entries

balance friction retain retain balance stand steady stick

Synonyms

13 entries

blooper case chemise cutting dislocate err faux pas lapse mooring skid slickness steal strip

derived

112 entries

Albany slip Freudian slip anti-slip antislip bank slip blue slip brick slip buck slip cover slip deposit slip fly slip forward slip give someone the slip green slip half slip hog-slip

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has context

14 entries

business ceramics cooking cricket electrical engineering falconry marine insurance medicine mining nautical printing uk us

is a

11 entries

artifact evasion flight maneuver lingerie long thin object mishap mistake potter's clay sheet sliding low friction young person

manner of

6 entries

escape forget insert move pass worsen

related to

281 entries

accident accidental accidental fall accidentally action actual almost almost fall also anagram anagram lips and fall balance banana banana fall banana peel

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similar

1 entries

fall

Translations

320 translations across 67 languages.

Ancient Greek

3 entries

κλάδος noun (twig or shoot)
ἁπλοΐς noun (women’s undergarment)
ὀλισθάνω verb (to lose one's traction)

Arabic

1 entries

اِنْزَلَقَ verb (to lose one's traction)

Aramaic

4 entries

פִּיתְקָא noun (small piece of paper)
ܡܸܫܬ݁ܲܪܓ݁ܠܵܢܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ noun (error)
ܦܸܛܩܵܐ noun (small piece of paper)
ܫܘܼܪܥܬ݂ܵܐ noun (error)

Armenian

1 entries

սայթաքել verb (to lose one's traction)

Aromanian

1 entries

alunic verb (to lose one's traction)

Assamese

1 entries

পিচলা verb (to lose one's traction)

Asturian

2 entries

esnidiar verb (to lose one's traction)
esñidiar verb (to lose one's traction)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

sürüşmək verb (to lose one's traction)

Bangi

1 entries

selimwa verb (to lose one's traction)

Belarusian

2 entries

пакаўзну́цца verb (to lose one's traction)
паслізну́цца verb (to lose one's traction)

Bulgarian

4 entries

буксуване noun (act of slipping)
грешка noun (error)
калем noun (twig or shoot)
комбинезон noun (women’s undergarment)

Catalan

4 entries

combinació noun (women’s undergarment)
engalba noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
papereta noun (small piece of paper)
relliscada noun (act of slipping)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

單據 /单据 noun (small piece of paper)
回條 /回条 noun (small piece of paper)
滑 noun (act of slipping)
紙條 /纸条 noun (small piece of paper)

Czech

4 entries

kombiné noun (women’s undergarment)
prokluz noun (act of slipping)
relaps noun (medicine: return to previous behaviour)
spodnička noun (women’s undergarment)

Danish

1 entries

glide verb (to lose one's traction)

Dutch

4 entries

herval noun (medicine: return to previous behaviour)
onderjurk noun (women’s undergarment)
reep noun (small piece of paper)
slip noun (act of slipping)

Esperanto

4 entries

slipo noun (small piece of paper)
erari verb (to err)
fuŝi verb (to err)
gliti verb (to lose one's traction)

Finnish

4 entries

alushame noun (women’s undergarment)
jättämä noun (nautical: difference between theoretical and actual advance of a vessel)
lappunen noun (small piece of paper)
lipsahdus noun (error)

French

4 entries

barbotine noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
fiche noun (small piece of paper)
glissade noun (act of slipping)
empirer verb (to worsen)

Galician

4 entries

borba noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
erro noun (error)
erro noun (error)
fallo noun (error)

German

4 entries

Angussmasse noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
Ausrutschen noun (act of slipping)
Ausrutscher noun (act of slipping)
Ausrutscher noun (error)

Greek

4 entries

γλίστρημα noun (act of slipping)
μεσοφόρι noun (women’s undergarment)
ολίσθηση noun (act of slipping)
γλιστρώ verb (to lose one's traction)

Gujarati

1 entries

લપસવું verb (to lose one's traction)

Hebrew

2 entries

פִּתְקָה noun (small piece of paper)
גָּלַשׁ verb (to lose one's traction)

Hindi

2 entries

चिट्ठी noun (small piece of paper)
फिसलना verb (to lose one's traction)

Hungarian

4 entries

elszólás noun (error)
kombiné noun (women’s undergarment)
nyelvbotlás noun (error)
csúszik verb (to lose one's traction)

Indonesian

2 entries

slip noun (small piece of paper)
terpeleset verb (to lose one's traction)

Ingrian

1 entries

lipistyä verb (to lose one's traction)

Irish

2 entries

fo-ghúna noun (women’s undergarment)
sleamhnaigh verb (to move quickly)

Italian

4 entries

barbottina noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
errore noun (error)
sbaglio noun (error)
sottoveste noun (women’s undergarment)

Japanese

1 entries

滑る verb (to lose one's traction)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries

futi verb (to lose one's traction)
futi verb (to move quickly)

Khmer

1 entries

រឥល verb (to lose one's traction)

Korean

1 entries

미끄러지다 verb (to lose one's traction)

Latin

3 entries

indūcula noun (women’s undergarment)
lapsus noun (act of slipping)
lābor verb (to lose one's traction)

Latvian

2 entries

paslīdēt verb (to lose one's traction)
slīdēt verb (to lose one's traction)

Lingala

1 entries

selumwa verb (to lose one's traction)

Lithuanian

1 entries

slysti verb (to lose one's traction)

Macedonian

2 entries

слизне verb (to lose one's traction)
слизнува verb (to lose one's traction)

Malagasy

1 entries

mibolisatra verb (to lose one's traction)

Manx

1 entries

fo-ghooyn noun (women’s undergarment)

Māori

4 entries

paheketanga noun (error)
panekoti noun (women’s undergarment)
waiuku noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
ātea kōripi noun (a fielding position in cricket)

Norman

1 entries

drisser verb (to lose one's traction)

Norwegian

2 entries

gli verb (to lose one's traction)
skli verb (to lose one's traction)

Occitan

1 entries

resquilhar verb (to lose one's traction)

Old English

3 entries

slype noun (women’s undergarment)
slūpan verb (to lose one's traction)
ætslīpan verb (to lose one's traction)

Oromo

1 entries

mucucaachuu verb (to lose one's traction)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

تذكره noun (small piece of paper)
پوصوله noun (small piece of paper)

Polish

4 entries

arkusik noun (small piece of paper)
fiszka noun (small piece of paper)
gafa noun (error)
poślizgnąć się verb (to lose one's traction)

Portuguese

4 entries

escorrega noun (error)
derrapar verb (to lose one's traction)
deslizar verb (to lose one's traction)
escorregar verb (to lose one's traction)

Romanian

4 entries

alunecare noun (act of slipping)
barbotină noun (ceramics: thin, slippery mix of clay and water)
fițuică noun (small piece of paper)
hârtiuță noun (small piece of paper)

Russian

4 entries

квито́к noun (small piece of paper)
комбина́ция noun (women’s undergarment)
комбина́шка noun (women’s undergarment)
листо́к noun (small piece of paper)

Sardinian

1 entries

lassinare verb (to lose one's traction)

Sindhi

1 entries

تِرڪَڻُ verb (to lose one's traction)

Slovak

1 entries

pokĺznuť sa verb (to lose one's traction)

Spanish

4 entries

combinación noun (women’s undergarment)
descuido noun (error)
desliz noun (error)
equivocación noun (error)

Swedish

4 entries

avvikelse noun (nautical: difference between theoretical and actual advance of a vessel)
lapp noun (small piece of paper)
misstag noun (error)
reva noun (twig or shoot)

Tagalog

1 entries

dumulas verb (to lose one's traction)

Tamil

1 entries

வழுக்கு verb (to lose one's traction)

Telugu

3 entries

చీటీ noun (small piece of paper)
జారు verb (to lose one's traction)
పొరబడు verb (to err)

Thai

4 entries

พลั้งปาก verb (to give up a secret by mistake)
ลื่น verb (to lose one's traction)
หลุดปาก verb (to give up a secret by mistake)
หลุดออก verb (to move out of place)

Ukrainian

4 entries

помилка noun (error)
ослизну́тися verb (to lose one's traction)
поковзну́тися verb (to lose one's traction)
помили́тися verb (to err)

Unami

1 entries

èthun noun (women’s undergarment)

Vietnamese

1 entries

trượt verb (to lose one's traction)

Welsh

1 entries

llithro verb (to move quickly)

Yiddish

1 entries

קוויטל noun (small piece of paper)

ǃXóõ

1 entries

ǂqába kâ verb (to lose one's traction)

Sample sentences

58 total sentences available.

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If you're not careful, you might slip and fall on the icy steps.

Source: tatoeba (20363)

The boss called Jim into his office and gave him his pink slip.

Source: tatoeba (33436)

Tom talked too much and let the secret slip.

Source: tatoeba (37061)

I've just let slip that he is sick.

Source: tatoeba (39829)

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