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slipstick

American  
[slip-stik] / ˈslɪpˌstɪk /

noun

Informal.
  1. slide rule.


Etymology

Origin of slipstick

First recorded in 1930–35; slip 1 + stick 1


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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

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

But eventually, even the Space Service gets around to putting two and two together on the slipstick.

From Next Door, Next World by Robert Donald Locke

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 Walt Richmond

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