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pink slipping

pink slipping is the present participle and gerund of pink slip.

Meaning of pink slip

Verb

pink slip (third-person singular simple present pink slips, present participle pink slipping, simple past and past participle pink slipped)

  1. (US, informal, transitive) To terminate the employment of.
    • After a week of anxiously watching the mailbox through little Japanese binoculars his wife had given him for a going-away present (she'd left him the day after he was pink-slipped) and getting nothing but sucker-list stuff through the regular deliveries that came each noon, he was jolted out of a...1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 84

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Questions about pink slipping

What is pink slipping the present participle and gerund of?
Pink slipping is the present participle and gerund of pink slip.

Words near pink slipping in the dictionary

  1. pink sky at night, sailors' delight; pink sky at morning, sailors take warning
  2. pink sky at night, sailors' delight; pink sky in the morning, sailors take warning
  3. pink slime
  4. pink slip
  5. pink slipped
  6. pink slipping
  7. pink slips
  8. pink snapper
  9. pink snappers
  10. pink spot
  11. pink spots

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