slip the cable

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slip the cable (third-person singular simple present slips the cable, present participle slipping the cable, simple past and past participle slipped the cable)

  1. (nautical, dated) To release the end of the cable on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor.
  2. (nautical, slang, dated) To die.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “slip the cable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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