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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.

The shivering urchin bending as he goes,
With

slipshod

heels.

Cowper.

Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling;

as,

slipshod

manners; a

slipshod

or loose style of writing

Thy wit shall ne’er go

slipshod

Shakespeare

Adj.

[slip and shod.] Wearing shoes like slippers, without pulling up the quarters.