Noun

(en noun)

A person who trains another; a coach.

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(sports) A person responsible for treating injuries sustained by players during matches; a physiotherapist.

* 2009 , Garth Dykes, Nelson FC in the Football League , page 22:

He served Nelson wholeheartedly as a player, coach and trainer in a lengthy association, the highlights being his involvement in two championship-winning sides.

(British) A running shoe or sneaker.

(video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.

* 2000 , "Phil", I need trainer for version 1.10.021'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.rctycoon )

I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.

* 2001 , "LJames4728", Good C64 Game Sites?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.c64 )

Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers /intros.

Noun

(en noun)

A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.

Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.

Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.

A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).

A person who slips.

* 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5, page 130:

He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.

* 1995 , Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching ''Twelfth Night'' and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2, page 3:

Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper , hilarious to the spectator across the street.

* 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8, page 7:

Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.

A kind of apron or pinafore for children.

A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.

(engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.

A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".

* 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research

"Mrs Marlene Foster , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "

The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.

* 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research

"All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."