slip n.1
a counterfeit coin.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Disputation Betweene a Hee and a Shee Conny-Catcher (1923) 64: He went and got him a certaine slips, which are counterfeyt peeces of mony being brasse, & couerded ouer with siluer, which the common people call slips. | |
| Romeo and Juliet II iv: rom.: What counterfeit did I give you? mer.: The slip, sir, the slip: can you not conceive? | |
 | Epigrams 64: First weigh a friend, then touch and try him too, For there are many slips and counterfeits [F&H]. |
In phrases
to reduce (through poverty) to using counterfeit coins.
| Mother Bombie II i: I shall goe for siluer though, when you shall bee nailed vp for slips. | |
| Antonio’s Revenge I ii: Your nose is a copper nose, and must be nail’d up for a slip. | |
| Meditations (1635) 108: But (here) they Naile him up, for a Slippe (a Brasen Counterfeit;) one, that did but say hee was a King [OED]. |