SLIPPER


Meaning of SLIPPER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

carpet slipper

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bedroom

They kissed her, one cheek each, and departed softly in their pink felt bedroom slippers .

He is dressed in an immaculate suit, but he is wearing bedroom slippers .

I don't think bedroom slippers are the footwear of lovers.

Would Gay like the bedroom slippers she had sent her for Christmas?

It floated down to the threadbare navy-blue carpet, some settling on the bedroom slippers she wore.

carpet

An old man was out feeding the gulls in his carpet slippers .

No more than five feet tall in her carpet slippers , you just knew it would be best not to cross her.

Like a leather-clad spanking madam in fluffy carpet slippers , it's less threatening that way.

■ VERB

put

Sitting on the side of the bed, he put on his slippers .

At the entrance to the bathroom, I slipped off my regular slippers and put on woven straw slippers.

Maggie acted, racing from her room and running to the stairs, not waiting to put on slippers or a robe.

wear

This is alleviated by wearing slippers , and by the use of rugs either side of the bed.

It was a Monday night, just past dinner, and he was wearing plaid slippers .

He has come out into the road wearing slippers .

He is dressed in an immaculate suit, but he is wearing bedroom slippers .

She makes him wear slippers to save her carpet.

She wore pert green velvet slippers and a lovely sea green robe.

Do not wear slippers without any backs in them.

She was wearing a housecoat and slippers .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He was, like Aziz the janitor, definitely wearing one shoe and one slipper .

I would lose my glass slipper .

Ralph launched his slipper across the room.

Richard took off his slippers and put on his black shoes again, and they went out.

The king announced that whoever fit into the slipper would get to marry the prince.

This detail would have been immediately obvious had the slipper been made of glass.

What could I do with her slippers?

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