滑すべる
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)
1. to slide; to glide; to skate; to ski
Why don't the two of us skate together?
2. to slip; to skid
My foot slipped.
3. to be slippery
This floor is really slippery.
Verb (5-dan, る, transitive)
4. to fail (an examination)
5. to lose (a position); to be demoted
Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)
Colloquialism
6. to bomb (when telling a joke); to fall flat
I'm so afraid of my jokes falling flat that I can't tell any.
7. to slide (move)
usu. スベる
Kanji used
slippery
Pitch accent
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べ
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Top 3000
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
to have one's hands slip (and drop something)
to make a slip of the tongue; to let something slip
Examples (27 in total)
Do you ski?
My foot slipped.
I can't ski that well.