timeslip
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A timesheet.
noun
An official slip of paper showing the elapsed time for each driver.
noun
A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.
Example Sentences
- "Fireman Iver Peterson, whom Fireman Cunningham displaced, also submitted a timeslip claiming 100 miles for deadheading..."
- "Every train crew fills out a timeslip that contains sufficient information with which to compute the crew's hourly wage rate."
- "Change a timeslip into an 'expense-slip' to track costs."
- "In any case, neither Morris nor Adeler used a timeslip like Twain."
- "And, although not in a timeslip tale, the horse protagonist of Richard Adams's Traveler (1988) is a creature inherently bound to General Lee..."
- "For an instant, she felt as though she were caught in a timeslip — her crew suffering from scurvy, the transporter a significant advantage..."