滑すべり込こみ

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Meanings

1

noun

sliding; slide

baseball

Baseball term for a slide into a base. Also used in other sports for a sliding motion.

彼かれ

は

二に

塁るい

へ

の

滑すべ

り

込こ

み

が

うまい

。

He is good at sliding into second base.

滑すべり込こみの練れん習しゅうを毎まい日にちしている。

I practice sliding every day.

2

noun

just in time; at the last moment; barely making it

Figurative use derived from the baseball slide: arriving, submitting, or finishing something just before a deadline or cutoff. Often used as 滑り込みで or 滑り込みセーフ.

締しめ切きりに滑すべり込こみで間まに合あった。
I made it just in time for the deadline.
最さい終しゅう電でん車しゃに滑すべり込こみで乗のれた。
I barely caught the last train.

Kanji

滑slippery, slide, slip
込crowded, mixture, in bulk

Related words

スライディング
スライディング is the loanword for a sports slide (baseball, soccer), while 滑り込み is the native term for sliding into something, used both in sports and everyday contexts like a train sliding into a station.

Word family

滑すべり込こみセーフ
sliding safely (baseball) · just making it; barely on time

Written forms

滑すべり込こみUsage92%
Standard kanji spelling for both baseball sliding and the figurative 'just in time' sense.
スベリコミUsage8%
すべり込こみ
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially for the figurative sense.

Etymology

Compound of 滑り (sliding) + 込み (entering), from the verb 滑り込む. The figurative sense comes from the image of sliding into a base just before being tagged out.