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SLIP IN
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
She slipped in a reference to her own work
Synonyms:
insert; slip in; sneak in; stick in
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "slip in" is one way to...):
add; append; supply (state or say further)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slip in"):
spatchcock (interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE