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Definition of Slipper

1. Noun. Low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors.

2. Noun. A person who slips or slides because of loss of traction.

Definition of Slipper

1. n. One who, or that which, slips.

2. a. Slippery.

Definition of Slipper

1. Noun. A low shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. ¹

2. Noun. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper. ¹

3. Noun. A person who slips. ¹

4. Adjective. (obsolete) slippery ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slipper

1. a light, low shoe [n -S]

Medical Definition of Slipper

1. 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. 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, a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. Slipper flower. A boat shell. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipper

slipout slipouts slipover slipovers slippage slippages slipped slipped capital femoral epiphysis slipped disc slipped discs

slipped disk slipped disks slipped hernia slipped tendon slipped tendon disease slipper (current term) slipper-orchid slipper animalcule slipper chair slipper lobster

slipper lobsters slipper orchid slipper plant slipper spurge slippered slipperier slipperiest slipperily slipperiness slipperinesses

Literary usage of Slipper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE YELLOW LADY'S slipper Teacher's Story "Graceful and tall the slender drooping stem, With tii'o broad leaves below. Shapely the flower so lightly poised ..."

2. Tableaux, Charades and Pantomimes: Adapted Alike to Parlor Entertainments (1896)
"CINDERELLA'S slipper. This beautiful tableau may be represented In three or ... One of the sisters is eagerly bent on forcing her foot into the slipper. ..."

3. The Design of Marine Engines and Auxiliaries by Edward Milton Bragg (1916)
"Size of slipper. — The load upon the slipper is zero at the beginning and end of the stroke and a maximum at mid- stroke. This maximum load will be G' = W ..."

4. One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games by Ethel Perrin, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (1902)
"HUNT THE slipper. Grade: Primary. No. of Players: 10 to 30. Apparatus: slipper. The players sit on the floor in a circle, with their knees raised, ..."

5. One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games by Ethel Perrin, Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (1902)
"Apparatus: slipper. The players sit on the floor in a circle, with their knees raised, and with the girls well scattered among the boys, so that their ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"BOTANY.1 AN INTERESTING LADY'S slipper.—Professor Bastin, of the University of Chicago, describes and figures, in a recent number slipper ..."

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