Verb: slip away slip u'wey
- Leave furtively and stealthily
"The lecture was boring and many students slipped away when the instructor turned towards the blackboard";
- steal away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out, slip out
- Become later by the passage of a given amount of time
"three years slipped away";
- elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, go by, slide by, go along
Derived forms: slips away, slipped away, slipping away
See also: slip
Type of: advance, go away, go forth, go on, leave, march on, move on, off [informal], pass on, progress