slipper

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

    Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
  3. 3

    A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

  4. 4

    A person who slips.

  5. 5

    A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

  6. 6

    A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

  7. 7

    A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.

  8. 8

    A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".

  9. 9

    The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.

verb

  1. 1

    To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.

adjective

  1. 1

    Slippery

    O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.

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