ballet slipper

noun

plural ballet slippers

1

: a slipper without a heel that is made usually of soft leather or fabric (such as canvas) and is worn by ballet dancers

… hung up her pointe shoes … and now performs in soft ballet slippers.

—Holly Harris

called also ballet shoe

2

: ballet flat sense 1

… she wore … a mauve violet shirt; black dirndl skirt, stockings, and ballet slippers …

—Kennedy Fraser

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for ballet slipper

• chipper
• clipper
• dipper
• flipper
• gripper
• kipper
• nipper
• ripper
• shipper
• skipper
• stripper
• tipper