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SIDE-SLIP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does side-slip mean?
• SIDE-SLIP (verb)
The verb SIDE-SLIP has 1 sense:
1. slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis
Familiarity information: SIDE-SLIP used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it side-slips Past simple: side-slipped
Past participle: side-slipped
-ing form: side-slipping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "side-slip" is one way to...):
skid; slew; slide; slip; slue (move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples
“A side-slip,” I suggested.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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