outslip
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
outslip (third-person singular simple present outslips, present participle outslipping, simple past and past participle outslipped)
- (obsolete, transitive) To escape, to slip away from. [17th c.]
Noun[edit]
outslip (plural outslips)
- (obsolete) Something that has slipped out; a mistake, a slip. [17th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8:
- I often hazard upon certaine outslips [translating boutades] of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies, whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […] .