slippy

[ slip-ee ]

adjective,slip·pi·er, slip·pi·est.

Informal. slippery.
Chiefly British. quick; alert; sharp.

Origin of slippy

First recorded in 1540–50; slip¹ + -y¹

Other words from slippy

slip·pi·ness, noun

Words Nearby slippy

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How to use slippy in a sentence

After all, “Alexandra mentioned her slippy rubber-soled boots a lot in her writing, too.”
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Then, again enjoining her to "look slippy," she left the room.
Sue, A Little Heroine | L. T. Meade
And he concluded by fixing the steward with a ferocious scowl and the familiar spur to action, “Look slippy naow!”
The Viking Blood | Frederick William Wallace
Plenty hungry and thirsty, Mass Jim, an if havvy food to eat, den de time slippy along velly quickly.
The Hero of Panama | F. S. Brereton
There's a hantle o' rough slippy bits o' life afore ye, my bonnie bairn, I'm thinkin'.
Morag | Janet Milne Rae

But the Rajah only laughed in that nasty, slippy way he has and took her cigarette away and smoked it himself.
The Lamp in the Desert | Ethel M. Dell

British Dictionary definitions for slippy

slippy

/ (ˈslɪpɪ) /

adjective-pier or -piest

informal, or dialect another word for slippery (def. 1), slippery (def. 2)
British informal alert; quick

Derived forms of slippy

slippiness, noun

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