At your age, Socrates, are you not ashamed to be catching at words and chuckling over some verbal slip?

The effect of her verbal slip was evident in Kirk's stiff back; she turned away.

Mr. Bush made another verbal slip today when he promised that his Inaugural Address would be short.

His use of the past tense, aides said, was a verbal slip, and no military operations against Iraq are under consideration.

I found his verbal slip rather interesting, but now wasn't the time to investigate further.

Was it the clouds in his old friend's eyes, the unconscious verbal slip about a blemished rock in the dirt?

I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues.

A verbal slip, he says, can betray an outsider, like the stranger who orders a Turkish coffee in a Greek restaurant.

He didn't even have to make some verbal slip, to slip big time.

A verbal slip like that could be costly in the wrong company.