Definitions for slippery

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slippery slip·per·y

Spelling: [slip-uh-ree, slip-ree]

IPA: /ˈslɪp ə ri, ˈslɪp ri/

Slippery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in slippery (eilpprsy).

Definitions for slippery

adjective

1. tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.:
2. tending to slip from the hold or grasp or from position:
3. likely to slip away or escape:
4. not to be depended on; fickle; shifty, tricky, or deceitful.
5. unstable or insecure, as conditions:

Origin of slippery

1525-35; alteration of slipper²; compare Low German slipperig; see -y¹

Examples for slippery

In one or two spots the water ran over, and those spots were slippery.

I should have believed so, if my hand which had clutched that other hand, had not been slippery with oil.

It was about ten o'clock—rainin' hard and bad goin', it was that slippery.

Swiss leaders also dispel the “slippery slope” idea by repeatedly rejecting substantial minimum wage increases.

Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.

Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.

The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.

Hers is a particular brand of essay: writing at its most crystal clear, subject matter at its most slippery and interesting.

The door was piled with bodies, and the stone floor was slippery with blood.

Then he sprang upon the slippery rock and snatched the gold.