Slip Away

Definition: Slip Away

Slip Away

Verb

1. Leave furtively and stealthily; "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the balckboard".

2. Pass by, as of time.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Slip Away

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Escape

Elude; make off; (avoid); march off; (go away); give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of.

Crosswords: Slip Away

Let's slip away under cover of afternoon in the biggest car in the country. (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie; writing credit: Trace Beaulieu, Paul Chaplin, Bridget Jones, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl)

You let Haldeman slip away. (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

We let it all slip away (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

How could we let it slip away (If You Leave Me Now; performing artist: Chicago)

Why'd you let it slip away (Too Gone Too Long; performing artist: En Vogue)

But like a fool I let it slip away (Living Inside Myself; performing artist: Gino Vannelli)

Baby know the game, slip away, and slide me yo' number (Between Me and You; performing artist: Ja Rule)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Music

• Don't Let Love Slip Away (reference)

• Slip Away (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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If however they become divided or falter in their duty and if these all-important years are allowed to slip away then indeed catastrophe may overwhelm us all. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

largohem ngadalë, ik pa rënë në sy. (various references)

Bulgarian 

минавам неусетно (glide, slip by), измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, finagle, fish out, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, tap, wheedle, worm), изплъзвам се (escape, run off, slip off, slip out). (various references)

Chinese 

溜 (to skate). (various references)

Czech

vytratit se (decamp, slope off, steal away), tiše zesnout. (various references)

Finnish

pujahtaa (slide, slip), livahtaa karkuun (escape). (various references)

French

s'éclipser. (various references)

German

sich wegstehlen (slip off), sich wegschleichen (creep away, slip off, steal away, to steal away), schwinden (die away, dwindle, evanescence, fade, fade away, fail, lapse, ooze away, recede, retreat, shrink, swoon, tail off, vanish, wane, waste, wear away), wegrutschen (slide away, slip), verstreichen (apply, elapse, expire, fill in, pass, pass by, put on, spread, to elapse), vergehen (be about, blame, crime, delinquencies, delinquency, die, die away, elapse, fade, fading, fault, go by, guilt, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offense, pass, pass away, pass by, passing, swelter, to pass off, wear off), dahinschwinden (dwindle, waste away, wither), allmählich schwinden. (various references)

Hungarian

elszalad (to make off, to pop off, to run away, to scuttle away, to scuttle off). (various references)

Indonesian

lolos (bolt (from jail), slip off). (various references)

Italian

svignarsela (levant, skive, slink off, slip out, sneak off). (various references)

Manx

immee roish (drive away, proceed). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipslay awayay

Portuguese

passar (blow over, come, draw, drew, dub, elapse, fare, give in, go, go beyond, go by, hand, pass, pass by, rake, rake up, spend, strop, to pass, to spend, transfer, wear off, wile), escapulir (slink). (various references)

Romanian

se scurge (drain, dribble, ebb, elapse, flow, fly by, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass by, run, slip by, stream, wear out), trece (bequeath, blow over, call, call on, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go by, go on, insert, jot down, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pop, reeve, register, roll, sail, sift, slip by, transmit, traverse, wear), o şterge englezeşte (slip by). (various references)

Russian 

ускользнуть (get away, nip away), смываться (come off, wash off). (various references)

Scottish

siolp. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umaći (break away, lose). (various references)

Spanish

marcharse desapercibido, largarse (bugger off, buzz off, clear off, decamp, get, hop off, light out, lump it, make away, make off, pack away, pack off, pop off, push off, scat, scoot, scram, sheer off, shove along, shove off, skiddoo, skip off, slink away, slink off, split, take off, walk off), escurrirse (drain, drip, glide away, glide off, melt away, slip out), escabullirse (clear out, scurry away, scurry off, slink, slip off, sneak away, sneak off, snuck, steal away, wriggle out of). (various references)

Swedish

smyga bort. (various references)

Ukrainian

вислизнути (slide away, slip, slip off), піти, не прощаючись. (various references)

dilabor, labor, recedam, recede, recedent, recedentibus, recedere, recedes, recedet, recesserat, recesseruntque, recessi, recessisse, recessisti, recessit, subterlabor. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: slipway, waspily.

-2 letters: aliyas, always, palais, pilaws, playas.

-3 letters: alias, aliya, alway, asyla, lapis, pails, paisa, palsy, pawls, pilaw, playa, plays, salpa, spail, splay, swail, wails, waspy, wispy, yawls, yawps.

-4 letters: aals, ails, alas, alps, away, awls, laps, laws, lays, lipa, lips, lisp, pail, pals, paly, pawl, paws, pays, pial, pias, pily, play, pyas.