outslip

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ slip.

Verb

outslip (third-person singular simple present outslips, present participle outslipping, simple past and past participle outslipped)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To escape, to slip away from. [17th c.]

Noun

outslip (plural outslips)

1. (obsolete) Something that has slipped out; a mistake, a slip. [17th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.8:

     I often hazard upon certaine outslips [translating boutades] of my minde for which I distrust my selfe; and certaine verball wilie-beguilies, whereat I shake mine eares; but I let them runne at hab or nab […] .

Anagrams

• slip out, slipout