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slip through

slip through verb: to get past an inspection or procedure without any issue.

Verb

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

  1. To get past an inspection or procedure without any issue.
    • Criticisms of poor accuracy can usually be justified, but the occasional error (as in many a published work) can still slip through.2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76
  2. To barely pass; to minimally succeed at something.

Forms of slip through

third-person singular presentslips through
present participleslipping through
past participleslipped through
pastslipped through

Questions about slip through

What does slip through mean?
Slip through means to get past an inspection or procedure without any issue.
What part of speech is slip through?
Slip through is a verb.
What is the past tense of slip through?
The past tense of slip through is slipped through.

Words near slip through in the dictionary

  1. slip steward
  2. slip stewards
  3. slip stitch
  4. slip stitches
  5. slip the cable
  6. slip through
  7. slip through someone's fingers
  8. slip through the cracks
  9. slip through the net
  10. slip under
  11. slip under the radar

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