slipped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of slip.

   The climber slipped on the loose rock and grabbed a branch.

   Share prices slipped slightly after the morning announcement.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty. In she slipped on the ice it is the past tense; in she has slipped twice this week it is the participle. The final p doubles before -ed. Because slip can also take an object, the participle forms passives too: a note slipped under the door, money slipped to a doorman. These carry the quiet, covert sense of passing something along, which the footing meaning cannot supply.

2. 2
   adjective

   In heraldry, depicted with part of the stalk attached, as a flower or leaf taken from the plant.

   The herald blazoned the lily as slipped and seeded.

   A red rose, slipped and leaved, sits at the center of the coat of arms.

   Note

   Blazon places it straight after the plant it describes and before the color. Bernard Burke's The General Armory (1864) gives "three trefoils slipped vert," meaning green trefoils with their stalks showing. It works alongside other plant terms such as leaved and seeded, each adding one more detail to the charge. It is said only of plants and is never compared: a stalk is shown or it is not.

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