slip2 n
1 1981 MAJOR 181 The first slip I set out, I asked him to go cut me a standard--a stick to tie the slip onto--and he comes back with an old dead stick, old man, that wouldn't hold a shrew, let alone a rabbit. 1985 Metro 21 July, p. 15 [They] had tried several times before to catch the bear with slips but each time the animal had managed to escape. 1986 Sunday Express 14 Dec, p. 36 Snare-setting is a very common practice and hunters may 'tail out' as many as several hundred slips over several miles of rabbit country.
