A loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled.
1 Now, with a speculative air, he was making a slip noose at one end.
2 A line attached to this leads to a slip noose which fits inside the tube.
3 He then put a slip noose around its upper lip and led it unmercifully, while Curtis encouraged it from behind with a rope-end.
4 Two ropes would be put about the neck of each animal, with a slip noose , so that he could be choked if too unruly.
5 "I just made slip nooses , and placed them where they'd have to step into them before they could lay hands on the clothes," explained Jack.
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