EGAVE

slipper

About 0.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
  4. noun A person or creature that slips.
  5. noun A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
  6. noun A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
  7. noun A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
  8. noun A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".

Similar words

carpet slipper footwear shoe stocking mule slider skid sliding slide animalcule

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Word family

slippered slippers

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