English Dictionary

slipper

/ˈslɪpə(ɹ)/

noun

A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily. / Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper. / (US, Hawaii, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

I left my slipper at the door.

意味（1）

A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

意味（2）

Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.

Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.

意味（3）

(US, Hawaii, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

意味（4）

A person who slips.

He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.

意味（5）

A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

意味（6）

A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

意味（7）

(engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.

意味（8）

A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".

Mrs Marlene Foster […] , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottomas red as a beetrootafter he was punished for writing on desks.

意味（9）

(euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.

All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms.

意味（10）

(medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped like a shoe.