Meaning of Slipper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
2. A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.
3. A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
   Hawaii, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, US
4. A person or creature that slips.
5. A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
6. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
7. A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
8. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
9. The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
   euphemistic
10. A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.

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Examples

“Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.”

“He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.”

“Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.”

“Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.”

“He was grey and had eight legs, and could travel anywhere and slip into any corner of 9 worlds. For this reason he was called Sleipnir ("the slipper) and was given to Oðinn as his steed.”

“1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research "Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "”

“"All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."”

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