slipper
/ˈslɪpəɹ/ noun A2- A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper. · Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.
- A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- A person or creature that slips.
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
- A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
Plural slippers
From the library
The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack—even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco—all met my eyes as I glanced round me.
There were carpet slippers on his bare feet.
He had a pair of bedroom slippers.
“Where are the slippers now?”
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