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slip
noun as in error, goof
Strong matches
noun as in piece of paper
noun as in space for docking
verb as in fall; glide
verb as in lessen, return to a lower quality
verb as in err
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Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?
Less than a minute into her big break, Slate let slip a highly audible F-bomb instead of the scripted “freaking.”
I know that Detroit is losing market share in auto sales, but how did they let the Motown sound slip out of their hands?
Both Time and CNN reinstated Zakaria after determining the slip-up was “an isolated incident.”
To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral.
Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.
So my mother begged me to slip into the Rooms, with what was left, and try to get something back.
What the economist does is to slip out of the difficulty altogether by begging the whole question.
Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.
It's easy for a prisoner t' slip a note to a friend that happens t' be mountin' guard.
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On this page you'll find 281 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slip, such as: blunder, error, goof, lapse, misstep, and mistake.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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