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slip in

verb
  1. To include (e.g. a certain word or phrase) into a sentence discreetly. (transitive)
  2. To enter discreetly. (transitive)
  3. To play a subtle pass into someone in a goalscoring position. (transitive)
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You could not have made any slip in coming?”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 115 · B2
Or could the chief have given West the slip in the fog, and West started at once to London to head him off from his own rooms, presuming that he knew where the rooms were?
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 26 · B2

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