slipstick
- n analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators
- Ambitious workersfrom hard-hat musclemen to round-shouldered slipstick artists were already clamoring to work under the Brooklyn-born straw boss.
- It is the scientist with his slipstick who measures the effects of untried weapons in future battles.
- At Cal and Cal Tech, Oppie had been at home with the blackboard and the slipstick.