slip — meaning in English

English meaning

• briefs noun Short, close-fitting underpants.
• skid noun An uncontrolled sliding movement, as when a vehicle's wheels lose grip.
• slip verb To lose one's footing or grip and slide accidentally.

Senses

slip is used for these senses in English:

• briefs (chiefly, Australia, informal) Male underpant bikini briefs.
• shirttail The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
• skid An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
• slip (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.

skid — full definition

1. noun An uncontrolled sliding movement, as when a vehicle's wheels lose grip.
2. verb To slide sideways or out of control, typically due to loss of traction.

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