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Webster 1913 Edition
Slipper
Slip′per
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, slips.
2.
A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
3.
A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
4.
A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
5.
(Mach.)
A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; – also called
shoe
, and gib
. Slipper animalcule
(Zool.)
, a ciliated infusorian of the genus
– Paramecium
. Slipper flower
.(Bot.)
Slipperwort.
– Slipper limpet
, or
Slipper shell
(Zool.)
, a boat shell.
Slip′per
,Adj.
[AS.
slipur
.] Slippery.
[Obs.]
O! trustless state of earthly things, and
Of mortal men.
slipper
hopeOf mortal men.
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slipper
SLIP'PER
, n.1.
A kind of shoe consisting of a sole and vamp without quarters, which may be slipped on with ease and worn in undress; a slip-shoe.2.
A kind of apron for children, to be slipped over their other clothes to keep them clean.3.
A plant. [L. crepis.]4.
A kind of iron slide or lock for the use of a heavy wagon.Definition 2024
slipper
slipper
English
A pair of low-heeled bedroom slippers.
Noun
slipper (plural slippers)
- A low soft 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.
- (US, Hawaii) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- 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.
- A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
- 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
- "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "
- 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
- (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
- 2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research
- "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."
- 2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research
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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.
Verb
slipper (third-person singular simple present slippers, present participle slippering, simple past and past participle slippered)
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
- 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
- "One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."
- 1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
