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sliced, ppl. a.|slaɪst|
[f. slice v.1]
1. a. Cut into slices; cut cleanly.
1589in Hall Eliz. Age (1886) 218/1 For slist bief, vj d. 1591Markham Sir R. Grinuile cxxxiii, Streaming diuine blood from his sliced side. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. i, A dish of slic'd caviare, or so. 1675H. Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 137 Sliced Dates and good big pieces of Marrow..with sliced Lemon. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. i. 29 May, Devouring sliced beef. 1806Culina 71 Put the meat into an earthen pot with plenty of sliced turnips. 1842J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 111 Add half a pound of sliced soap. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (1884) 372 The sliced specimen of some..stone.
fig.1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 313 The schisme of a slic't prayer.
b. Of food: sold already cut into slices, esp. sliced bread. Also in colloq. phr. the best (or greatest, etc.) thing since sliced bread: an expression of enthusiastic appreciation, esp. of a new invention or discovery.
1958J. Mortimer What shall we tell Caroline? ii. 109 The trouble with living here, the butter gets as hard as the rock of Gibraltar. It blasts great holes in your sliced bread. 1963L. Deighton Horse under Water xxxi. 124 They prodded..their product... Sliced, sterilized and Cellophane-wrapped; a loaf. 1969R. Jaffe Fame Game (1970) v. 106 You're the greatest thing since sliced bread. 1970Guardian 28 Feb. 10/1 The biggest thing since sliced bread is now in the shops. It is called part-baked bread. 1972Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xii. 183 Bodkin regards you as the best thing that's happened since sliced bread. 1973J. Thomson Death Cap ii. 34 Mrs King asked me to..buy half a pound of sliced ham and I cut the sandwiches. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 21 Aug. 6/3 They're the best thing since sliced bread and they're selling like wildfire here,’ says Dan Wagner, proprietor of the Georgetown Cycle Shop. 1981Austral. Forest Industries Jrnl. Suppl. (Plywood & Veneer) Oct. 35 (heading) Sheathing—the greatest thing since sliced bread!
2. Having a slice cut or taken off.
1874Heath Croquet Player 25 Cylindrical Heads... Sliced Mallets. Ibid., The majority of good players play with sliced mallets.
3. Golf and Tennis. (See slice v.1 5.)
1890Hutchinson Golf (Badm.) 104 All sliced balls start away high. 1901Scotsman 9 Sept. 4/7 In bents off a sliced drive, Herd again dropped two holes behind. 1971Laver & Collins Educ. Tennis Player xi. 144 Most of the time I used a sliced serve, and that seems to be the common delivery. |