slippery

But Dictionary.com -- which crowned it word of the year -- said it was Generation Alpha's joke on adults who are "once again struggling to make sense of its notoriously slippery slang".

This race had never been wet before, and the combination of water and the already slippery track meant that the extreme tyres were used in both the first two sessions.

In heavy snow, riders can use snow chains on their tyres to improve traction on slippery roads, it says.

The red soil has the nerve to be slippery, making it hard to stop or turn when we need to.

Troika thus has a troika of meanings, which simply proves that words are slippery creatures in every language.