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 slipper is gripped at the heel end.
- This slipper was made of black leather.
- The fashionable shoe was a flat slipper.
- The crossheads are of the slipper pattern.
- As it is you're headed down a slipper slope.
- In the meantime, Kermit and Splurge return the slipper.
- The 'Flat slipper shell' is also another type of slipper shell.
- Annoyed, she put on her slippers and trudged to the cantankerous television.
- Wagner was not a man capable of avoiding grandiloquence even when wearing carpet slippers.
- Outside the school, one parent, accompanied by a friend in slippers, was wearing leggings over her pyjamas.
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