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slippy

[ slip-ee ]

adjective

, slip·pi·er, slip·pi·est.
  1. Informal. slippery.
  2. Chiefly British. quick; alert; sharp.


slippy

/ ˈslɪpɪ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    another word for slippery slippery
  2. informal.
    alert; quick
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈslippiness, noun
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Other Words From

  • slippi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slippy1

First recorded in 1540–50; slip 1 + -y 1
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Example Sentences

After all, “Alexandra mentioned her slippy rubber-soled boots a lot in her writing, too.”

Then, again enjoining her to "look slippy," she left the room.

And he concluded by fixing the steward with a ferocious scowl and the familiar spur to action, “Look slippy naow!”

Plenty hungry and thirsty, Mass Jim, an if havvy food to eat, den de time slippy along velly quickly.

There's a hantle o' rough slippy bits o' life afore ye, my bonnie bairn, I'm thinkin'.

But the Rajah only laughed in that nasty, slippy way he has and took her cigarette away and smoked it himself.

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