overslip

present singular third person overslips · participle present overslipping · participle past overslipped · past overslipped

1. transitiveTo slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond.
2. transitiveTo omit or neglect, to fail to mention.

   to overslip time or opportunity

   1 more example

   Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]

   1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6

plural overslips

1. A kind of light overgarment, easily slipped on.
2. obsoleteAn oversight, a mistake or neglect.