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long-slips

long-slips is the plural of long-slip.

Meaning of long-slip

Noun

long-slip (plural long-slips)

  1. (dated) A fielder some distance behind and on the right of the batsman.

Questions about long-slips

What is long-slips the plural of?
Long-slips is the plural of long-slip.

Words near long-slips in the dictionary

  1. long-sightedness
  2. long-sleeved
  3. long-sleever
  4. long-sleevers
  5. long-slip
  6. long-slips
  7. long-snouted seahorse
  8. long-snouted seahorses
  9. long-span
  10. long-spined bullhead
  11. long-spined bullheads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: long-slips (page history and authors); long-slip (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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