SLIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slipping mean? 

• SLIPPING (adjective)
  The adjective SLIPPING has 1 sense:

1. moving as on a slippery surface

  Familiarity information: SLIPPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIPPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving as on a slippery surface

Synonyms:

slipping; slithering

Context example:

his slipping and slithering progress over the ice

Similar:

slippery; slippy (causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide)

 Context examples 

Then the long, black side of the vessel began slipping past, so near that I could have touched it with my hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I met her slipping in.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slipping off his shoes, to ease his swollen feet, he sat down at the table with his books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With crossed ankles and sunken head, he sat as though all his life had passed out of him, with the beads slipping slowly through his thin, yellow fingers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The situation was slipping away from him, all his beautiful calmness was going.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The word “Frenchman” was hardly spoken without “rascal” or “scoundrel” slipping in before it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will hurt yourself, Miss Bertram, she cried; you will certainly hurt yourself against those spikes; you will tear your gown; you will be in danger of slipping into the ha-ha.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Slipping out, she ran down and, finding a servant, asked if he could get her a carriage.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There they go! said my companion, slipping cartridges into the second double barrelled Express.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Time and the world were slipping from beneath him, but the box was there; and the last words he had uttered were (in an explanatory tone) “Old clothes!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)