slipper

A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.

Get out of bed, put on your slippers, and come downstairs.

A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

A person or creature that slips.

He is a frequent “slipper,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.

Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper, hilarious to the spectator across the street.

A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

slippery

O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.

To spank with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.

1981, Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book, Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research "One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."