Pink slip — may refer to: * Pink slip (employment), an American term that refers to being fired from one s job * Pink Slip Records, a record label * Pink Sheets, a concept in stock trading * Vehicle title, a slang term for the document establishing ownership … Wikipedia
pink slip — 1) Slang for notice from an employer that one is being fired or laid off. 2) Slang for the official title certificate to a vehicle, because in some states the document is or was pink. This is the source of the phrase racing for pinks, when the… … Law dictionary
pink slip — ☆ pink slip n. [from the sometime use of pink paper for the employee s carbon of the dismissal notice] Informal notice to an employee of termination of employment … English World dictionary
pink slip — 1. n. a piece of paper giving notice of dismissal from employment; any dismissal from employment. □ I got a pink slip today. I guess I had it coming. □ I hope I don’t get a pink slip. I need this job. 2. tv. to dismiss someone from employment.… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
pink slip — noun a) (U.S.) notice of the termination of employment After 20 years of dedicated service to the firm, they simply handed him a pink slip one day. b) (U.S.) the title for an automobile (source is most likely from California … Wiktionary
pink slip — noun Date: 1915 a notice from an employer that a recipient s employment is being terminated • pink slip transitive verb … New Collegiate Dictionary
pink-slip — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb Informal. To end the employment or service of: cashier, discharge, dismiss, drop, release, terminate. Informal: ax, fire. Slang: boot1, bounce, can, sack1. Idioms: give someone his or her walking papers, give someone… … English dictionary for students
pink slip — noun N. Amer. informal a notice of dismissal from employment … English new terms dictionary
Employment discrimination — (or workplace discrimination) is discrimination in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, and compensation. It includes various types of harassment. Many jurisdictions prohibit some types of employment discrimination, often by forbidding … Wikipedia
slip — I n. error 1) to make a slip (of the tongue) 2) a Freudian slip escape (colloq.) 3) to give smb. the slip piece of paper 4) a credit (BE), deposit slip (in a bank); a sales slip (AE) 5) a call slip ( request for a library book ) 6) a pink slip (… … Combinatory dictionary
