slipping
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
slipping
- present participle and gerund of slip
Noun[edit]
slipping (plural slippings)
- The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.
- slippings and slidings
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:
- The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).