pink-slip
Example Sentences
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It condemned Baltimore to a nail-biting 26-24 loss that handed the Steelers the AFC North—and Harbaugh a pink slip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
Colbert was given a pink slip with a long tail this year.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
Lief, who received a pink slip in February — it later was rescinded — said “it would be impossible not to worry about” the possibility of layoffs.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
It looks like I’ll be commuting more—but for how long before I, too, get a pink slip without warning or reason?
From Slate • Feb. 3, 2025
She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
