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SLIPPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
Synonyms:
carpet slipper; slipper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("slipper" is a kind of...):
footgear; footwear (covering for a person's feet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slipper"):
bootee; bootie (a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies))
mule; scuff (a slipper that has no fitting around the heel)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("slipper" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slipper"):
snowboarder (someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard)
Context examples:
Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His slippers, too, were gone, but his boots were left behind.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king his father, and said, “I will take for my wife the lady that this golden slipper fits.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He was tender of the very slippers she had been warming, as he put them on, and stretched his feet enjoyingly upon the fender.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The other articles I made up in a parcel; my purse, containing twenty shillings (it was all I had), I put in my pocket: I tied on my straw bonnet, pinned my shawl, took the parcel and my slippers, which I would not put on yet, and stole from my room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I went over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and Quincey in pajamas and slippers: the former spoke:—I heard your man call up Dr. Van Helsing and tell him of an accident.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Let me see ... you said, 'Who is the young lady in the pretty slippers', didn't you?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Oh, if you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I will be at your service in an instant, Watson. You will find tobacco in the Persian slipper.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So he turned his horse round, and brought the false bride back to her home, and said, “This is not the right bride; let the other sister try and put on the slipper.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
