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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
slipknot is a noun meaning "a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made". It carries one recorded sense.
a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slipknot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.