slipper |
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1. n. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. | |
2. n. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper. | |
Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs. | |
3. n. (US, Hawaii) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal). | |
4. n. A person who slips. | |
5. n. A kind of apron or pinafore for children. | |
6. n. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel. | |
7. n. (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib. | |
8. n. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper". | |
9. n. (euphemism) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment. | |
10. adj. (obsolete) slippery | |
O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser. | |
11. v. (Australia) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment. | |