Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slip or twig taken from the side; an oblique offshoot: hence, an unacknowledged or illegitimate child.
- noun A division at the side of the stage of a theater, where the scenery is slipped off and on.
- noun The tendency of the rear or driving pair of wheels of a smooth-tired motor-vehicle to slip sidewise when the surface of the roadway is coated with a thin film of slippery mud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
skid , below. - intransitive verb See
skid , below.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb slide sideways through the air in a downward direction in an airplane along an inclined lateral axis
- noun a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- noun an unexpected slide
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Examples
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Monticellis would come again now that it was the fashion for a picture to be anything except a picture; and the future of Johns, with a side-slip into Buxton Knights.
To Let 2004
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Anderson was to side-slip to the right until he touched the left of Hoke, whose division would be in position before daylight.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Unless met as Grant's flank march of May 7 was, the side-slip might put the Federals between Lee's army and Richmond.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Unless met as Grant's flank march of May 7 was, the side-slip might put the Federals between Lee's army and Richmond.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The whole operation, in fact, could be a swift side-slip to the right.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The whole operation, in fact, could be a swift side-slip to the right.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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Anderson was to side-slip to the right until he touched the left of Hoke, whose division would be in position before daylight.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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On the bloody front where Lee's lieutenants had faced Grant for almost a fortnight it was apparent by the morning of May 21 that the Federals had undertaken another side-slip.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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On the bloody front where Lee's lieutenants had faced Grant for almost a fortnight it was apparent by the morning of May 21 that the Federals had undertaken another side-slip.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The attenuated air gave no firm support to the wings, and the least tilt developed into side-slip, while she seemed sluggish on her controls.
The Horror of the Heights Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1992
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