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slipping out

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

Meaning of slip out

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To leave quietly and unnoticed.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To go out for a brief moment; to pop out.
  3. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To be said or revealed by accident.
    • I was talking to Jim, about Paul and Ethel, when it just slipped out about their possible divorce. I’m sorry.
  4. (idiomatic, informal, intransitive) Of an object: to work loose and slide out of proper position.

Questions about slipping out

What is slipping out the present participle and gerund of?
Slipping out is the present participle and gerund of slip out.

Words near slipping out in the dictionary

  1. slipping it to
  2. slipping off
  3. slipping off someone's tongue
  4. slipping one past
  5. slipping one's wind
  6. slipping out
  7. slipping someone a length
  8. slipping someone's mind
  9. slipping through
  10. slipping through someone's fingers
  11. slipping through the cracks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slipping out (page history and authors); slip out (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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