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means To lose your footing and slide unexpectedly, or more broadly to move, fall, or pass quietly and quickly from one place or state to another.
from From Middle English 'slippen,' likely borrowed from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch 'slippen,' meaning to slide or glide. It belongs to a slick Germanic family of words built on a root suggesting smooth, slimy, slippery things — a cousin of 'slime' and 'slick.' The sense of a small undergarment and a 'slip of paper' both grew from the same idea of something thin, narrow, and easily slid into place.
- freudian fame
- Slips of the tongue blamed on the subconscious since 1901
- banana myth
- Banana peels really are dangerously slick underfoot
- cricket post
- Fielding position named for catching slipped shots
- undergarment
- A slip once meant essential underwear, not a stumble
- ship's home
- A slip is also a boat's parking space
big one slip california — 1995 earthquake that caused the northridge fault to slip 18 feet near los angeles
freudian slip — term from sigmund freud's 1901 'psychopathology of everyday life' describing unconscious verbal errors
panama canal slip accident — 1986 incident where ss president truman slipped and collided with canal lock gates