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let slip

let slip verb: to divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake.

Verb

let slip (third-person singular simple present lets slip, present participle letting slip, simple past and past participle let slip)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake.
    • It was let slip that they were planning to take over the business.
    • The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.1909 December 29, Jack London, “The Whale Tooth”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 61
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) To let fly; to attack or challenge someone.
    • I would take it kind of your worship to let me be present at his examination, that if he clear himself of one murder I may let slip at him with the other.1862, Thomas Hood, John Clubbe, Tom Hood, Works: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse. Edited, with Notes, page 263

let slip meaning in Telugu

let slip in Telugu

to let slip or drop, let down
జార్చు jārcu, జారుచు jārucu

Forms of let slip

third-person singular presentlets slip
present participleletting slip
past participlelet slip
pastlet slip

Questions about let slip

What does let slip mean?
Let slip means to divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake.
What is let slip in Telugu?
Let slip in Telugu is జార్చు (jārcu), జారుచు (jārucu). See Let slip meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is let slip?
Let slip is a verb.
What is the past tense of let slip?
The past tense of let slip is let slip.

Words near let slip in the dictionary

  1. let out
  2. let past
  3. let rip
  4. let sleeping dogs lie
  5. let slide
  6. let slip
  7. let someone down gently
  8. let someone go
  9. let someone have it
  10. let someone hold
  11. let someone loose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: let slip (page history and authors); జారుచు (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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