Associations to the word «Slipping»

Wiktionary

SLIPPING, verb. Present participle of slip
SLIPPING, noun. The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.

Dictionary definition

SLIPPING, adjective. Moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne