slip2
• noun 1 a small piece of paper for writing on or that gives printed information. 2 a cutting taken from a plant for grafting or planting. — PHRASES a slip of a boy/girl/thing a small, slim young person. — ORIGIN probably from Dutch or Low German slippe ‘cut, strip’.
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