slipper
English
A pair of low-heeled bedroom slippers.
Etymology
From slip.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪpə(r)
Noun
slipper (plural slippers)
- A low shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
- Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
- A person who slips.
- 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
- He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
- 1995, Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2, page 3:
- Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.
- 2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:
- Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
- 1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
low shoe slipped on and off easily
low shoe usually worn indoors
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person who slips
Adjective
slipper (comparative more slipper, superlative most slipper)
- (obsolete) slippery
- O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.
