| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| slipper |
| 1. n. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. |
| 2. n. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper. |
| Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs. |
| 3. n. (US, Hawaii) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal). |
| 4. n. A person who slips. |
| 5. n. A kind of apron or pinafore for children. |
| 6. n. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel. |
| 7. n. (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib. |
| 8. n. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper". |
| 9. n. (euphemism) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment. |
| 10. adj. (obsolete) slippery |
| O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser. |
| 11. v. (Australia) To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment. |
