Slip-by Definition

verb

(idiomatic, intransitive) To pass without having been taken advantage of.

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To go unnoticed.

The children managed to slip by when the patroller was looking away.
The children slipped by the patroller.
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Slip-by Sentence Examples

  • The opportunity was allowed to slip by.

  • She tried to slip by quietly, but he glanced up as she passed.

  • Was Edith's vivid imagination working overtime or had Jerome Shipton managed to slip by Janet O'Brien and invade his wife's room?

  • I can see how that might slip by you, but how could you miss hearing about him on the news?

  • This latest war of the words, perhaps just a slip by Lohan, again puts the hot topic of Hollywood friendships in the spotlight.

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