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slip

 
 
/slɪp/ noun [C]

Translation

PAPER a small piece of paper
fiş, pusula
He wrote the number on a slip of paper.1197
FALL when you slide by accident and fall or almost fall
kayma, sendeleme, düşüverme, kayış
1601
WOMEN'S CLOTHING a piece of clothing that a woman wears under a dress or skirt
kombinezon
823
MISTAKE a small mistake
hata, kusur, yanılgı, ufak bir hata
1902
give sb the slip informal to escape from someone you do not want to be with
kaçmak, sıvışmak, uzak durmak
1622
a slip of the tongue a mistake made by using the wrong word
dil sürçmesi
1902
(Definition of slip noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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