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slips by

slips by is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 slips by

What is slips by the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Slips by is the third-person singular simple present indicative of slip by.

Words near slips by in the dictionary

  1. sliproads
  2. slips
  3. slips and capture
  4. slips away
  5. slips back
  6. slips by
  7. slips down
  8. slips in
  9. slips into
  10. slips it to
  11. slips of the keyboard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slips 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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