slip past

Meanings

verbslip past (third-person singular simple present slips past, present participle slipping past, simple past and past participle slipped past)

present singular third person slips past · participle present slipping past · participle past slipped past · past slipped past

Synonym of sneak past
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Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance. I noticed, though, that whenever one looked tired and lagged, she let it slip past. But I noticed, also, whenever one, with a show of fight, tried to break past, that her eyes glinted and showed bright, and she rapped it smartly with her club.
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
Synonyms: sneak past

verbSynonym of sneak past

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