Definition of "slip away" [slip away]

• To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed (verb)
• To pass quickly, almost unnoticed. (verb)
• To disappear. (verb)
• To die (verb)

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• "Call Sign 31 Bravo not only managed to slip away unhindered, but also took the opportunity to loose off a round of 105 mm HESH at the shape of a T72 its commander detected in the wood, before discharging a cluster of smoke grenades and backing off."
• "I proposed to walk the distance quietly by myself; and very quietly, after leaving my box in the ostler's care, did I slip away from the George Inn, about six o'clock of a June evening, and take the old road to Thornfield: a road which lay chiefly through fields, and was now little frequented."
• "It struck him that the Ashregan's preoccupation with Itepu offered him a chance to slip away quietly."