Definition of "slipping" []

• Present participle of slip. (verb)
• The act of something that slips; a slip; a skidding or sudden loosening motion. (noun)

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• "There was real purpose from him this round, he knew what was at stake and no doubt felt the title slipping away from him."
• "Wake up your numbers are slipping, is that big bad republican machine too."
• "Economists polled by Dow Jones predict it will fall from a 50.9 reading in July to 49.1—slipping, in other words, below the 50 level that indicates expansion."