slipstick

[ slip-stik ]

nounInformal.

slide rule.

Origin of slipstick

¹

First recorded in 1930–35; slip¹ + stick¹

Words Nearby slipstick

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How to use slipstick in a sentence

Want to tell our preoccupied slipstick and test-tube boys in the rim before we roll her, or just wait and see what happens?
Where I Wasn't Going | Walt Richmond
But somebody produced a slipstick and began to juggle it expertly.
Sand Doom | William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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