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slipped through

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

Meaning of slip through

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.

Questions about slipped through

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

Words near slipped through in the dictionary

  1. slipped one past
  2. slipped one's wind
  3. slipped out
  4. slipped someone a length
  5. slipped someone's mind
  6. slipped through
  7. slipped through someone's fingers
  8. slipped through the cracks
  9. slipped through the net
  10. slipped under
  11. slipped under the radar

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