slipper
UK/ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/US/ˈslɪpəɹ/
slipper noun: a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
Noun
slipper (plural slippers)
- A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- Synonyms:
- pantofle
- A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.
- Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
- A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- A person or creature that slips.
- He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.1955, Father John Doe (Father Ralph Pfau), Sobriety and Beyond, Hazelden Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, page 130
- Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.1995, Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello, Simon and...
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
- A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
- "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
- The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
- "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."2004, James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn, World Corporal Punishment Research
- A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
Adjective
slipper (comparative more slipper, superlative most slipper)
- slippery
- O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
Verb
slipper (third-person singular simple present slippers, present participle slippering, simple past and past participle slippered)
- To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
- "One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
slipper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
slipper in Hindi
- low shoe slipped on and off easily
- मोजड़ी mojṛī
- low shoe usually worn indoors
- चप्पल cappal
slipper in Tamil
- low shoe slipped on and off easily
- செருப்பு ceruppu
- low shoe usually worn indoors
- செருப்பு ceruppu
slipper in Urdu
- low shoe usually worn indoors
- چَپَّل cappal
slipper in Bengali
- slipper, sandal, flip-flop
- চটি cṭi
More languagesFewer languages
- slipper in Telugu
- స్లిప్పర్
- slipper in Malayalam
- പാപ്പാസ് pāppāsŭ
- slipper in Kannada
- ಕಾಲುಮೆಟ್ಟು, ಕಾಲ್ಮರೆ, ಕಾಲುಗಾಪು, ಕಾಲುಕಾಪು
- slipper in Punjabi
- ਚੱਪਲ, ਸਲਿੱਪਰ
- slipper in Gujarati
- ચંપલ campal
- slipper in Odia
- ସ୍ଲିପର, ସ୍ଲିପ୍ପର୍
- slipper in Sinhala
- සෙරෙප්පුව sereppuwa
- slipper in Nepali
- स्लिपर
- slipper in Tagalog
- tsinelas, bakya
- slipper in Arabic
- خُفّ ḵuff, نَعْل naʕl, بَابُوج bābūj
- slipper in Malay
- selipar
- slipper in Thai
- สลิปเปอร์ sà-líp-bpə̂ə, เกือกแตะ gʉ̀ʉak-dtɛ̀
- slipper in Vietnamese
- dép lê, giày hạ
- slipper in Myanmar
- ကွင်းထိုးဖိနပ် kwang:htui:hpi.nap
Examples of slipper in a sentence
- Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.2001, Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 7:
- For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.2020, Dagulf Loptson, Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer:
Synonyms of slipper
Forms of slipper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | slippers |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more slipper |
| superlative | most slipper |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | slippers |
| present participle | slippering |
| past participle | slippered |
| past | slippered |
Origin of slipper
From Middle English slypper, equivalent to slip + -er.
Words formed from slipper
- ballet slipper
- beslipper
- carpet slipper
- harem slipper
- house slipper
- house-slipper
- hunt the slipper
- Japanese slipper
- Kentucky lady's slipper
- ladyslipper
- lady's slipper
- lady slipper
- opera slipper
- pink lady's slipper
- pipe-and-slipper
- ruby slipper
- slipper animalcule
- slipper chair
- slipperette
- slipper flower
- slipper gourd
- slipperless
- slipperlike
- slipper limpet
- slipper lobster
- slipper orchid
- slipper-orchid
- slipper satin
- slipper sock
- slipper spoon
- slipperwort
- southern lady's slipper
- toilet slipper
- yellow lady's slipper
Phrases with slipper
Words that rhyme with slipper
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Questions about slipper
- What does slipper mean?
- Slipper means a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- What is slipper in Hindi?
- Slipper in Hindi is मोजड़ी (mojṛī), चप्पल (cappal). See Slipper meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use slipper in a sentence?
- Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
- What part of speech is slipper?
- Slipper can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce slipper?
- Slipper is pronounced /ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of slipper?
- The plural of slipper is slippers.
Words near slipper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: slipper (page history and authors); চটি (Bengali) (page history and authors); slipper (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പാപ്പാസ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); slipper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slipper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ચંપલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); slipper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); සෙරෙප්පුව (Sinhala) (page history and authors); slipper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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