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butter-slide

butter-slide noun: a long patch of butter on a floor that will cause anybody walking on it to slip, traditionally used in slapstick or as a practical joke.

Noun

butter-slide (plural butter-slides)

  1. A long patch of butter on a floor that will cause anybody walking on it to slip, traditionally used in slapstick or as a practical joke.

Forms of butter-slide

pluralbutter-slides
alternative formbutterslide

Questions about butter-slide

What does butter-slide mean?
Butter-slide means a long patch of butter on a floor that will cause anybody walking on it to slip, traditionally used in slapstick or as a practical joke.
What part of speech is butter-slide?
Butter-slide is a noun.
What is the plural of butter-slide?
The plural of butter-slide is butter-slides.

Words near butter-slide in the dictionary

  1. butter-fingered
  2. butter-flower
  3. butter-ham
  4. butter-hams
  5. butter-muslin
  6. butter-slide
  7. butter-slides
  8. butter-woman
  9. butter-women
  10. butterable
  11. butteraceous

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