slipthrift means A spendthrift. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From slip + thrift.
noun
- A spendthrift.“Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies.”
- 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.”