slipstick
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of slipstick
Example Sentences
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Both his tie and his crop of snow-white hair are usually a little askew, but his mind is as precise as an engineer's slipstick.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Cal and Cal Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ambitious workers?from hard-hat musclemen to round-shouldered slipstick artists were already clamoring to work under the Brooklyn-born straw boss.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obviously his men included at least some of these slipstick boys—and he would command the loyalty of them all, since he was somewhat of their ilk himself.
From Where I Wasn't Going by Richmond, Walt
I don't know how your slipstick boys cracked our code and picked that message up," he said, "and I don't really care.
From Where I Wasn't Going by Richmond, Walt
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