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