slipping

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɪpɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: slip‧ping

slipping

1. present participle and gerund of slip

slipping (plural slippings)

1. The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion.

   slippings and slidings

   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:

     The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically).

• lippings, sippling