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Slip on   /slɪp ɑn/   Listen
verb
Slip  v. t.  
1.
To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly. "He tried to slip a powder into her drink."
2.
To omit; to loose by negligence. "And slip no advantage That my secure you."
3.
To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper. "The branches also may be slipped and planted."
4.
To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound. "Lucento slipped me like his greyhound."
5.
To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
6.
To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
To slip a cable. (Naut.) See under Cable.
To slip off, to take off quickly; as, to slip off a coat.
To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.





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"Slip on" Quotes from Famous Books



... do, Roger, get some of those rubber tips that slip on the ends of lead pencils. The English stationer must have some. If you put them on all these arrows ...
— Ethel Morton at Rose House • Mabell S. C. Smith
... the street bends there. The concierge is the same, a little thicker, a little heavier; she always used to have a baby in her arms, now there are no more babies; her children, I suppose, have grown up and have gone away. There used to be a darkness at the foot of the stairs, and I used to slip on those stairs, so great was my haste; the very tinkle of the bell I remember, and the trepidation with ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... Sandvigen, but while they were on the way, he suddenly made the boatman change his course, and put in to the slip on the other side of the harbour. He must talk to Elizabeth's aunt. There was something in his mind all the time that wouldn't let him ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... illusion. No one, of course, ever saw a star within the tip of the horned moon. Yet a good many readers, until reminded of their astronomy, think they have seen this phenomenon. Coleridge apparently knew that the human mind would receive it as experience. The phrase is no slip on his part; the earlier editions had instead "almost atween the tips," which is astronomically justifiable, but in "Sibylline Leaves" and later he wrote it as ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... they were able to drive to church every Sunday in state, William sitting up behind, holding the reins between his mistresses, while Miss La Sarthe flourished a small whip whose delicate handle was studded with minute turquoises. From it dangled a ring which she could slip on her finger over her one-buttoned slate-colored glove, and so feel certain of not dropping this ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn


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