pink slip
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A notice of termination of employment.
Example Sentences
- "Pink slips are being handed out faster in corporate America than you can say, “Recession? What recession?”"
- "From 2002 to 2004, many individuals received pink slips as a result of a slow economy."
- "2008, Warren Richard Plunkett, Raymond F. Attner, Gemmy S. Allen, Management: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations, Thomson, 9th Edition, page 400, Oracle chose a weekend in which to notify PeopleSoft employees of their termination: the company sent them pink slips via express mail."
- "But when she visited the bank, all she found inside were the pink slip to her car, a passport she′d acquired two years ago before a vacation trip to Australia and a few other documents."
- "My car mechanic does the pink slip for my bike - he doesn't know anything about them but does know that I keep it in tip top condition."
- "If the car is still currently registered, then you can drive it to anyone, anywhere to get the pink slip. If its just out of registration ( within 3 months of the rego expiring) then you take it to the nearest one ( or so they say)"
Etymology
From pink + slip (“piece of paper”), referring to the colour of the paper, in some cases as it was in past, and not necessarily present, practice. * (automobile title): Most likely from California, where the title is printed on a smaller index-card sized piece of pink paper; in other states the title is typically a full-size 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, usually printed on blue or blue-green paper with borders, similar to a stock certificate.
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage
- Informal
- Transitive verb