" slips "

[Verb]  | "slip" | \ ˈslip \

1: to move with a smooth sliding motion

2: to move quietly and cautiously : steal

3: elapse, pass

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English slippen, probably going back to Old English *slippan, weak verb cognate with Middle Dutch slippen "to lose one's footing, slip," Middle Low German slippen, Old High German pesliphen, pislipfan "to lose one's footing, stumble," intensive derivative of Germanic *sleipan- "to slide, slip" {mat|slipper:1|};

  * Note : The Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, and Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology take the Middle English verb to be a loan from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, though it see:ms equally or more probable that it is a native formation, as was Walter Skeat's view.;

[Verb]  | "slip" 

1: to take cuttings from (a plant) : divide into slips

Origin: 1530 ;

 Derivative of {see: |slip:3|slip:3};

[Noun]  | "slip" 

1: a sloping ramp extending out into the water to serve as a place for landing or repairing ships

2: a ship's or boat's berth between two piers

3: the act or an instance of departing secretly or hurriedly

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English slype, slipp "sloping landing place for a boat," noun derivative of slippen "to {see: |slip:1|slip:1}";

[Noun]  | "slip" 

1: a small shoot or twig cut for planting or grafting : scion

2: descendant, offspring

3: a long narrow strip of material

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English slyp "edge of a garment," probably borrowed from Middle Dutch sleppe, slippe "loose end of a garment" or Middle Low German slippe, in same sense, of uncertain origin;

  * Note : The earliest sense of this word, "edge of a garment," is first attested in the English-Latin dictionary Promptorium parvulorum (ca. 1440), in the entry "Slyp, or skyrte: Lascinia [for classical lacinia 'border of a garment, edge, hem']." Presumably derived from this meaning is sense 2. The meaning "scion, offspring" (sense 1 and hence sense 3) is first attested in Wynkyn de Worde's printed edition (1495) of the medieval encyclopedia De proprietatis rerum, adapted from John of Trevisa's 14th-century English translation. It is not clear how "scion, offspring" might relate to the other English meanings ("strip of material" > "shoot of a plant"?), or to the presumed Middle Dutch/Middle Low German etyma, which have no comparable sense. -- The word slyp is also attested in the sense "cleft, crack" in late Middle Dutch (the dictionary Teuthonista of Duytschlender of Gert van der Schueren, 1477); it has been suggested that this was the earliest sense, with "cleft in a piece of fabric" leading to the meaning "loose end of a garment." The noun slyp is clearly derived from an earlier verb slippen "to split," which may be a weak derivative *slippōn- (< *slib-no-) of a Germanic strong verb *sleiban- evident in Old English tōslāf "(s/he) split, cleaved," assumed infinitive tōslīfan (see: {sliver:1|sliver:1}).;

[Noun]  | "slip" 

1: a mixture of finely divided clay and water used especially by potters (as for casting or decorating wares or in cementing separately formed parts)

Origin: 1640 ;

 Middle English slyp, slype, slyppe "mud, slime," going back to Old English slypa, slyppe, slipa (masculine or feminine weak noun) "slime, paste, pulp," going back to Germanic *slupjōn-, zero-grade noun derivative from a Class II strong verb *sleupan- "to creep, glide" (whence Old English slūpan "to slip, glide, move softly," Middle Dutch slūpen "to creep, glide," Old High German sliufan "to slip, creep," Gothic sliupan "to slip (in), enter stealthily"), probably back-formed from an intensive derivative *slupp- (as in Old High German slopfāri "itinerant monk," intslupfen "to slip away, escape") of a hypothetical verbal base *sleub- "slip," perhaps going back to Indo-European *sleu̯bh{mat|sleeve|};

  * Note : This account of the origin of *sleupan- is based on R. Lühr, Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen (Heidelberg, 1988), p. 352; her hypothesis is taken up in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (2. Auflage, 2001), s.v. *sleu̯bh-. As the author points out, this back-formation would have to extend as far as the ancestor of Gothic to account for the verb in that language.;

[Noun]  | "call slip" 

1: a form filled out by a library patron for a desired item (such as a book or newspaper)

Origin: 1877 ;

[Noun]  | "Freudian slip" 

1: a slip of the tongue that is motivated by and reveals some unconscious aspect of the mind

Origin: 1941 ;

[Noun]  | "half-slip" | \ ˈhaf-ˌslip \

1: a topless slip with an elasticized waistband

Origin: 1928 ;

[Noun]  | "nip slip" 

1: accidental and usually public exposure of a woman's nipple

Origin: 2002 ;

 Nip short for {see: |nipple|nipple};

[Noun]  | "pillow slip" 

1: pillowcase

Origin: 1793 ;

[Verb]  | "slips" 

[Verb]  | "slip" 

[Verb]  | "slip (on or into)" 

[Verb]  | "slips (into)" 

[Verb]  | "slips up" 

[Noun]  | "slips" 

[Noun]  | "slips" 

[Noun]  | "slip" 

[Noun]  | "slip" 

[Noun]  | "pink slips"