slipthrift noun2 •(no longer used) A spendthrift.Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies. — 1866 •(no longer used) A gambling game that was invented in the early 1500s, similar to shuffleboard but played with coins on a board, and which was more commonly called shovegroat.What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift. — 1579 formsslipthrifts
