slipstick

American  

[slip-stik] / ˈslɪpˌstɪk /

noun

Informal.

1. slide rule.

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Etymology

Origin of slipstick

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

From Next Door, Next World by Locke, Robert Donald