slipper
IPA: sɫˈɪpɝ
noun
- A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
- (US, Hawaii, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- A person who slips.
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
- A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
- (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
- (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
verb
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
adjective
- (obsolete) slippery
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Examples of "slipper" in Sentences
- The sisters fail in trying on the slipper, which is then fitted to
- Dick, a high-heeled satin slipper in his hand, was under a sheet with
- But she used a fuel-storage system called slipper tanks under the wings of the aircraft.
- Dick, a high-heeled satin slipper in his hand, was under a sheet with Terrence, teaching him Brother
- Globalization and the Crisis in the Western Slipper (... just the word itself - "slipper" - is a downer)
- The slipper was a pretty one, made of pink plush with a dainty heel and a shining buckle set in a small pink bow.
- But such is the power of fashion that many of these ladies have adopted the theatrical slipper, which is very difficult to walk with.
- She offered for Harriet's inspection a pink satin slipper adorned with the daintiest of silver buckles, and with heels dizzily suggestive of France.
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