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SLIP IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slip in mean? 

SLIP IN (verb)
  The verb SLIP IN has 1 sense:

1. insert casuallyplay

  Familiarity information: SLIP IN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SLIP IN (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Insert casually

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

insert; slip in; sneak in; stick in

Context example:

She slipped in a reference to her own work

Hypernyms (to "slip in" is one way to...):

add; append; supply (state or say further)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slip in"):

spatchcock (interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE


 Context examples 


You could not have made any slip in coming?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So I made myself respectable and tried to slip in behind Mrs. Kirke, but as she is short and I'm tall, my efforts at concealment were rather a failure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You can slip in from the shrubbery at any time; and there you will find we keep our umbrellas hanging up by that door.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Or could the chief have given West the slip in the fog, and West started at once to London to head him off from his own rooms, presuming that he knew where the rooms were?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could slip in noiselessly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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