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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slippy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Drive carefully; the road's slippy.
▪ I got to walk careful cos the pavements are so slippy.
▪ In places the towpath was slippy with mud and Henry pedalled precariously, dodging the puddles.
▪ They lay entangled, breath slowing down, slippy limbs entwined.
▪ They were slippy from the soapy water and his eyes were full of tears.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slippy

Slippy \Slip"py\, a. [AS. slipeg.] Slippery.

Wiktionary
slippy

a. 1 (context slightly informal English) slippery. 2 (context dialect dated English) Spry, nimble.

WordNet
slippy
  1. adj. being such as to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain" [syn: slippery] [ant: nonslippery]

  2. [also: slippiest, slippier]

Usage examples of "slippy".

As they were streaking through a planetary atmosphere with the savage brilliance of a dying comet, Odel was happily bopping away to a Slippy Martin track.

Titus snorted, looking up from a Lego tank that he was steadily chewing apart, his chubby fingers unable to separate the slippy little bricks he needed for building a tractor.

Sab glided off his perch and arrowed down, down through the house, through a rising cloud of plaster dust, down to the great hall, where he landed, skidded inelegantly on his slippy talons and, recovering his balance, came to a standstill beside Latch.

The finicky way the floor creaks, the slippy, wood-sanding sound of bare feet going someplace.

It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.

By the raised plain were slippy scree paths, so they held onto boscage while they climbed toward the dark.

Peter must have popped a pill because he shot down those slippy beeswaxed stairs sober aand pale as hell.

And she was even slippier than a fish because after all a fish has scales and she had none.

His progress, which hadn't been all that good, slowed down to almost nothing as the leaves got slippier and the mud stickier.

Jeanne McGill carried Sukie, with Carrie at her side to help her over the steeper, slippier parts of the track.