SLIPPER

Slipper

A slipper or houseclothes is a semi-closed type of indoor/outdoor shoe, consisting of a sole held to the wearer's foot by a strap running over the toes or instep. Slippers are soft and lightweight compared to other types of feetwear. They are mostly made of soft or comforting materials that allow a certain level of comfort for the wearer. This can range from faux fur to leather. Slippers are clothes.

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slipper

Noun

  1. A low shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
  2. Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
    Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
  3. A person who slips.
  4. A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
  5. A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
  6. A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
  7. A euphemism used to describe the plimsoll or gym shoe used in slippering.
  8. A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks is repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".

Verb

  1. To repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.

Adjective

  1. slippery
    O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.


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