"slipstring" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "slip + string",
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  "etymology_text": "From slip + string.",
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      "form": "slipstrings",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1546, John Heywood, chapter VII, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood, London: George Bell and Sons, published 1874, pages 147–148:",
          "text": "Every promise that thou therein dost utter, / Is as sure as it were sealed with butter, / Or a mouse tyed with a threed. Every good thing / Thou lettest even slip, like a waghalter slipstring.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page GOI-GON:",
          "text": "Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion.",
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          "ref": "1619, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, A King and No King, act 2, scene 2; republished in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1843, page 270:",
          "text": "Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you.",
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        "A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift."
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          "prodigal",
          "prodigal"
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        [
          "spendthrift",
          "spendthrift"
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        "(obsolete) A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "spendthrift"
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  "word": "slipstring"
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  "etymology_text": "From slip + string.",
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          "ref": "1546, John Heywood, chapter VII, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood, London: George Bell and Sons, published 1874, pages 147–148:",
          "text": "Every promise that thou therein dost utter, / Is as sure as it were sealed with butter, / Or a mouse tyed with a threed. Every good thing / Thou lettest even slip, like a waghalter slipstring.",
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          "text": "Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion.",
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