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slipped by

slipped by is the simple past and past participle of slip by.

Meaning of slip by

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes) To pass without being noticed or intercepted.
    • The children managed to slip by when the patroller was looking away.
    Synonyms:
    go by

Questions about slipped by

What is slipped by the simple past and past participle of?
Slipped by is the simple past and past participle of slip by.

Words near slipped by in the dictionary

  1. slippah
  2. slippahs
  3. slipped
  4. slipped away
  5. slipped back
  6. slipped by
  7. slipped disc
  8. slipped discs
  9. slipped disk
  10. slipped disks
  11. slipped down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slipped by (page history and authors); slip by (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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