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slipstick

NOUN
  1. analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators

How To Use slipstick In A Sentence

  • But somebody produced a slipstick and began to juggle it expertly. Sand Doom
  • Space Service gets around to putting two and two together on the slipstick. Next Door, Next World
  • Nozomi Entertainment over the last year, 2004's hilarious slipstick ninja comedy Anime Nano!
  • That a Heinlein character is nicknamed “slipstick” for his proficiency with the slide rule is a minor lapse of imagination in a future of moving highways, extraterrestrial colonies, asteroid mining, interstellar travel, near-immortality and other technological marvels. The Computer I Want for Christmas, and Other Thoughts
  • I wouldn't attempt it without a slipstick; I'm confused. Between Planets
  • Mine will be a cuddly little brunette that thinks a slipstick is some kind of lipstick and that an isotope's something good to eat. Masters of Space
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