▪ I. slipped, ppl. a.1
(slɪpt)
[f. slip v.1]
1. That has been let go, cast off, etc.; that has slipped or slid down.
| 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxxxii, Singlie Slipt Greyhounds chase Whole-Burnish't Herds. 1820 Scott Abbot x, I will leave them the slipp'd collar in their hands on the first opportunity. 1829 J. Phillips Geol. Yks. 98 The bay beyond is overhung by a broken slipped cliff. 1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant 11 Take in back stitch of three, by slipping off backwards without working the first,..lift over the first slipped one over the taken-in loop. 1872 Young Englishwoman Nov. 607/1 In decreasing..a stitch may be slipped, the following stitch knitted and the slipped stitch drawn over it. 1926, etc. [see slip v.1 26 e]. 1958 J. Norbury Knitting Adventure i. 15 Purl slipped stitch from cable needle. |
2. slipped disc, an intervertebral disc that is ruptured or injured, causing pain in the back or (if nerve roots are compressed) in other parts of the body. colloq.
| 1953 E. Simon Past Masters iii. 142 The slipped disk everybody nowadays is suffering from. 1959 Listener 10 Sept. 397/3 Achondroplasic breeds [of dogs] are also more apt to develop so-called ‘slipped discs’. 1972 J. Minifie Homesteader x. 79 God help the farmer who ‘pulled his back’, as they used to say before ‘slipped disc’ became the fashionable term. 1974 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxv. 56/2 If a load exceeds the ultimate tolerance of a disc..the nucleus may be forced through the annulus or cause it to bulge locally, a condition known as ruptured or prolapsed or slipped disc. |
▪ II. slipped, ppl. a.2
(slɪpt)
[f. slip v.2]
† 1. Cut obliquely. Obs.
| 1618 in Cripps Old Eng. Plate (1901) 281 Spoons with slipped ends. |
2. Her. Of plants, etc., used as charges: Represented as torn off from the stem.
| 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. x, The field is Sable, three Lilies slipped. Ibid., He beareth..three Gilliflowers Slipped. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 448/1 Gules on a Bend Argent, three Trefoils slipped proper. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xi. 70 [Trees are] slipped, when irregularly broken or torn off. 1868 Cussans Heraldry vi. (1893) 106 The Trefoil is usually blazoned as Stalked and Slipped... Slipped, applied to a plant, is the same as Erased to the limb of an animal. |
▪ III. slipped, ppl. a.3
(slɪpt)
[f. slip v.3]
Painted or ornamented with slip.
| 1914 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 11 Mar. 574 A boar's head in slipped painted ware of Late Hittite date. 1976 Nature 15 Apr. 581/2 This pottery includes sophisticated slipped wares. |