slip out

phrasal verb

slipped out; slipping out; slips out

1

: to slide out

The hammer slipped out of my hands.

2

: to leave a place without being noticed

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

3

: to be said by mistake

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

Examples of slip out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At home, Alpha has Uncle Amin jack-knifing with cramps on her floor, then slipping out of the family’s Eid dinner to score. —Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 May 2025

For anyone who’s ever been on a ventilator, death by suffocation is a paralyzing terror and Carson wholly sells this nightmare, painfully gasping for air and gurgling horribly as his nurse call button slips out of reach. —Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 16 May 2025

In the video on TikTok Fifi is seen on the front porch of their home, moments before slipping out of a loose harness. —Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025

Someone went to inform Boselli, who’d slipped out into the snack area outside the draft room. —Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for slip out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout