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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