Slip or The Slip may refer to: *

Slip (clothing) A slip is a woman's undergarment worn beneath a dress or skirt. A full slip hangs from the shoulders, usually by means of shoulder strap, narrow straps, and extends from the breast to the fashionable skirt length. A half slip (or ''waist slip'') ...

, an underdress or underskirt

Music

The Slip (band) The Slip is an Experimental rock, avant-rock trio from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of Providence, Rhode Island brothers Brad Barr (guitar, piano, vocals) and Andrew Barr (musician), Andrew Barr (drums), and Marc Friedman (bass guit ...

, a rock band * ''Slip'' (album), a 1993 album by the band Quicksand * ''The Slip'' (album) (2008), a.k.a. Halo 27, the seventh studio album by Nine Inch Nails * "Slip" (song), a 2013 song by Stooshe * "Slip", a song by Linkin Park from '' LP Underground 11'' * "Slip", a song by

Shawn Austin Shawn Austin (born January 13, 1989) is a Canadian country singer and songwriter. He has achieved five top ten singles at Canadian country radio, including " Tailgate to Heaven". Early life Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Austin ...

from the 2022 EP ''Planes Don't Wait'' * "Slip", an instrumental by Deadmau5 from the 2008 album ''

Random Album Title ''Random Album Title'' is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5, released by Ultra Records and Mau5trap on September 2, 2008. The album includes the singles " Faxing Berlin", " Not Exactly" and " I Remember" (with ...

'' * "The Slip", a 2024 song by the Smile

Nickname

* Slip Carr (1899–1971), Australian rugby union player and Olympic sprinter *

Slip Madigan Edward Patrick "Slip" Madigan (November 18, 1896 – October 10, 1966) was an American college football player and coach of college football, college basketball, and college baseball. He served as the head football coach at Saint Mary's College ...

(1896–1966), American college football player and multi-sport college coach

Science and technology

Biology

Slip (fish) Sole is a fish belonging to several families. Generally speaking, they are members of the family Soleidae, but, outside Europe, the name ''sole'' is also applied to various other similar flatfish, especially other members of the sole suborder S ...

, also known as Black Sole *

Slip (horticulture) A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant ...

, a small cutting of a plant as a specimen or for grafting *

Muscle slip Anatomical terminology is used to uniquely describe aspects of skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle such as their actions, structure, size, and location. Types There are three types of muscle tissue in the body: skeletal, smooth, a ...

, a branching of a muscle, in anatomy

Computing and telecommunications

SLIP (programming language) SLIP is a list processing computer programming language, invented by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. The name ''SLIP'' stands for Symmetric LIst Processor. It was first implemented as an extension to the Fortran programming language, and late ...

, (Symmetric LIst Processing language) *

Slip (telecommunication) In telecommunications, a slip is a positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols. Slips are usually caused by inadequate synchronization of the two clocks controlling the tran ...

, a positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols *

Serial Line Internet Protocol The Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) is an encapsulation of the Internet Protocol designed to work over serial ports and router connections. It is documented in . On personal computers, SLIP has largely been replaced by the Point-to-Point P ...

, a mostly obsolete encapsulation of the Internet Protocol

Earth science

Silicic-dominated Large Igneous Province A large igneous province (LIP) is an extremely large accumulation of igneous rocks, including intrusive ( sills, dikes) and extrusive (lava flows, tephra deposits), arising when magma travels through the crust towards the surface. The formatio ...

(SLIP), a geological feature consisting of a large area of igneous rocks of a certain type * Slip, the relative movement of geological features present on either side of a

fault plane In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic f ...

Land slip Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

or landslide, commonly called a slip in New Zealand

Materials

Slip (ceramics) A slip is a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares. Liquified clay, in which there is no fixed ratio of water and clay, is called slip or clay slurry which is used either for joining leather-hard (semi-hardened) clay body ...

, a mix of water and clay (clay slurry) used to produce ceramic wares *

Slip (materials science) In materials science, slip is the large displacement of one part of a crystal relative to another part along crystallographic planes and directions. Slip occurs by the passage of dislocations on close/packed planes, which are planes containing th ...

, the process by which a dislocation motion produces plastic deformation

Mechanical systems

Slip (vehicle dynamics) In (automotive) vehicle dynamics, slip describes the relative motion between a tire and the road surface it is moving on. This slip can be generated either by the tire's angular velocity being greater or less than the free-rolling speed (referred ...

, the relative motion between a tire and the road surface *

Slip (electrical motor) An induction motor or asynchronous motor is an AC motor, AC electric motor in which the electric current in the rotor (electric), rotor that produces torque is obtained by electromagnetic induction from the magnetic field of the stator winding ...

, the difference in speed between the frequency supplied to an induction motor and rotor shaft speed * Slip, a type of rail switch *

Slip gauge Gauge blocks (also known as gage blocks, Johansson gauges, slip gauges, or Jo blocks) are a system for producing precision lengths. The individual gauge block is a metal or ceramic block that has been precision ground and lapped to a specific t ...

or gauge block, a system for producing precision lengths

Psychology

Slip (treatment) In internal medicine, relapse or recidivism is a recurrence of a past (typically medical) condition. For example, multiple sclerosis and malaria often exhibit peaks of activity and sometimes very long periods of dormancy, followed by relapse or re ...

, a temporary return to a negative behavior after therapy intended to correct that behavior *

Freudian slip In psychoanalysis, a Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that occurs due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish or internal train of thought. Classical examples involve slips of ...

, an error in speech, memory or physical action that arises from the unconscious mind

Other uses in science and technology

Slip (aerodynamics) A slip is an aerodynamic state where an aircraft is moving ''somewhat'' sideways as well as forward relative to the oncoming airflow or relative wind. In other words, for a conventional aircraft, the nose will be pointing in the opposite directio ...

, an aerodynamic state in which an aircraft is moving sideways as well as forward relative to the oncoming airflow *

Slipway A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving smal ...

, a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water

Television

* "Slip" (''Better Call Saul''), an episode of ''Better Call Saul'' * ''Slip'' (TV series), an American comedy television series * "The Slip" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), an episode of ''The Amazing World of Gumball''

Other uses

Slip (cricket) In cricket, a slip fielding positions in cricket, fielder (collectively, a ''slip cordon'' or ''the slips'') is placed behind the Batting (cricket), batsman on the Fielding (cricket)#Off and leg side fields, off side of the field. They are place ...

, a fielding position in cricket * Slip (needlework), an embroidered or appliquéd image of a plant-cutting *

Slip opinion A judicial opinion is a form of legal opinion written by a judge or a judicial panel in the course of resolving a legal dispute, providing the decision reached to resolve the dispute, and usually indicating the facts which led to the dispute and ...

, a kind of judicial opinion, published on the day of the decision and subject to later revision *

Ferry slip A ferry slip is a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat or train ferry. A similar structure called a barge slip receives a barge or car float that is used to carry wheeled vehicles across a body of water. Often a ferry intended ...

, a specialized docking facility that receives a ferryboat *

Packing slip A receipt (also known as a packing list, packing slip, packaging slip, (delivery) docket, shipping list, delivery list, bill of the parcel, manifest, or customer receipt) is a document acknowledging that something has been received, such as m ...

, a shipping document that accompanies delivery packages * The Slip, a section of Swansea Beach