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[ verb ] leave furtively and stealthily

Examples

"The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard"

Used in print

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

Uncle_Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom_lands with difficulty , for more of the slaves , including Annie , had sneaked_off when the soldiers broke_camp .

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young_man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot_Sands - he of the porch steps anecdotes - who smoked cigarettes , performed the tango , wore fifty dollar suits , and sneaked_off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them .

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