a. A twig, sprig, or small shoot taken from a plant, tree, etc., for the purpose of grafting or planting; a scion, cutting.

b. In figurative context. (Common c1600.)

c. A scion or descendant.

d. figurative. An offshoot, outgrowth.

a. A young person of either sex, esp. one of small or slender build.

b. With of (introducing descriptive term), esp. in a slip of a girl. (Cf. sense 8.)

c. A thin or slender person.

a. dialect and New Zealand. A young store-pig.

b. A sole of intermediate size.

†a. The edge, skirt, or flap of a robe or garment. Obsolete. rare.

b. A light under-waistcoat with the edge showing to form a border to a waistcoat worn with morning dress.

a. A long and relatively thin and narrow piece or strip of some material. Frequently with of.

b. In special uses (see quots.).

c. An excised piece of this form.

a. A window, apartment, passage, etc., of an elongated form.

b. U.S. A narrow, doorless church-pew.

c. plural. (See quot. 1874.)

a. A piece of paper or parchment, esp. one which is narrow in proportion to its length. Frequently with of. Also betting slip: see betting-slip n. at betting n.¹ Compounds.

†b. A newspaper (or part of one) printed in the form of a long slip of paper. Obsolete.

c. Insurance. (See quots.)

d. Typography. A proof pulled on a long slip of paper, for revision before the type is made up into pages.

a. An artificial slope of stone or other solid material, built or made beside a navigable water to serve as a landing-place.

b. Shipbuilding. An inclined plane, sloping gradually down to the water, on which ships or other vessels are built or repaired.Hence Swedish slip, German slip, schlipp, schlippe.

c. A contrivance (patented in 1818) for hauling vessels out of the water in order to repair them.

†a. A stairway. Obsolete. rare.

b. At Bath: A means of descending into one of the public baths (see quots.).

c. local. A narrow roadway or passage.Cf. slype n., and German schlippe (also schlupf, schlupfe).

a. A leash for a dog, etc., so contrived that the animal can readily be released; esp. one used for a couple of greyhounds in coursing, by which they can be let go simultaneously.

†b. A cord provided with a running knot; a noose. Obsolete.

†c. A cord or string. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

d. Bookbinding. (See quots.)

e. Nautical. (See quot. 1886.)

†a. The neck-opening in a shirt. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

b. A child's pinafore or frock. Now dialect.

c. An article of women's attire, formerly an outer garment, later worn under a gown of lace or similar material. Also transferred, an infant's garment of this nature. In 20th-century use, an underskirt or petticoat dependent from the waist or the shoulders and having no sleeves. Colloquial phrase your slip is showing: see show v. Phrases 21.

d. A pillow-slip, pillow-case.

e. Upholstery. A slot-hem in which a wire or the like may be inserted.

f. plural. In full bathing slips: bathing-drawers. (No longer in use.)

a. A division in a pocket-book. Obsolete. rare.

†b. slang. (See quot. 1819) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

a. to give (one) the slip, or variants of this: To evade or escape from (a person); to elude, steal off or slip away from unperceived.

†b. Without personal object. Obsolete. rare.

†c. With punning allusion to slip n.⁴ Obsolete.

d. An act of evading or escaping; spec. in horsemanship (see quot. 1607²). rare.

a. An act of slipping, sliding, or falling down.

b. Proverb. (Cf. cup n. Phrases 1.)

c. The difference between the pitch of a propeller (on a ship or aircraft) and the distance it moves through the ambient medium in one revolution.

d. An act of slipping or stopping; an intermission.

e. The sudden descent of material within a blast furnace. Cf. slipping n.¹ 1c.

f. Movement relative to a solid surface of the fluid immediately adjacent to it.

g. Electrical Engineering. The proportion by which the speed of an electric motor falls short of the speed of rotation of the magnetic flux inside it.

h. Crystallography. The movement of one layer of ions over another in a stressed crystal.

i. The turning of one plate of a clutch relative to the other when they are in contact.

j. Aeronautics. A movement of an aircraft that includes a sideways component, esp. downwards towards the centre of curvature of a turn. Cf. skid n. 4b.

a. An error in conduct; esp. an instance of moral fault or transgression.

b. A mistake or fault in procedure, argument, inference, etc.

c. A mistake or fault, esp. one of a slight or trivial character, inadvertently made in writing, speaking, etc.; an unintentional error or blunder.

d. In the phrases a slip of the pen, a slip of the tongue, etc.

a. Geology. A slight fault or dislocation caused by the sinking of one section of the strata.

b. The slipping or subsiding of a mass of earth, etc., from a higher level; the quantity of earth which has thus fallen; = landslip n.

c. Mechanics and Physics. = shear n.² 5a.

a. The act of letting a dog go in order to pursue a deer, hare, etc.; also, the length of the start given to the hare.

†b. A trip or jerk. Obsolete. rare.

a. One or other of the fielders who stand behind and on the off-side of the wicket to which the ball is bowled.For the origin of this use cf. quot. 1833 at sense 9a.

b. The ground or position occupied or guarded by these players.

c. With qualifying words indicating the various positions in the slips, and the fieldsmen stationed there, as †extra slip, a man who stands outside second slip; third slip; first slip, the slip fielder who stands immediately to the right of the wicket-keeper (for a right-handed batter); his position; similarly, second (third, etc. slip), ranged in a line out from the wicket-keeper; leg slip: see leg slip n. 2; long slip: see long slip n. at long adj.¹ and n.¹ Compounds 4d; †middle slip, short third man; †short slip = first slip above. Also cover-slip n. 1 (Obsolete).