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slip²

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p) KEY

NOUN:

A part of a plant cut or broken off for grafting or planting; a scion or cutting.
A long narrow piece; a strip.
A slender youthful person: a slip of a child.
A small piece of paper, especially a small form, document, or receipt: a deposit slip; a sales slip.
A narrow pew in a church.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
slipped, slip·ping, slips

To make a slip from (a plant or plant part).

ETYMOLOGY:
Probably from Middle Low German, or Middle Dutch slippe

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