slip out

phrasal verb

slipped out; slipping out; slips out

: to slide out

The hammer slipped out of my hands.

: to leave a place without being noticed

We'll slip out (through) the back door.

: to be said by mistake

I didn't intend to tell them. It just slipped out.

Examples of slip out in a Sentence

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Sometimes, though, the enlarged view slips out of focus. —

Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024 The person in the video, which has received over 420,000 views in a week, is seen taking a slip out of the seat in front of him and sticking a 20-pound note in it and placing it back. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024 Armstrong slipped out of his black SUV to speak to CNBC just outside the venue. —

Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024 But months later, the topic mostly slipped out of news headlines even as politicians kept talking about China leading to the elections. —

Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for slip out