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slips

/slɪps/ noun B1
  1. the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
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There only remained an envelope with some small newspaper slips inside it.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 32 · B2
Here is a man who slips into a house with the deliberate intention of committing murder.
The Valley of Fear, p. 37 · C1
To where the grown-up river slips
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 2 · C1
This is it on the blue paper, and these slips, as I have explained, are the rough draft.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 42 · C1

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