LANDSLIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landslip mean? 

• LANDSLIP (noun)
  The noun LANDSLIP has 1 sense:

1. a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

  Familiarity information: LANDSLIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDSLIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

landslide; landslip

Hypernyms ("landslip" is a kind of...):

slide ((geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landslip"):

mudslide (a landslide of mud)

rockslide (a landslide of rocks)