slip the cable

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slip the cable (third-person singular simple present slips the cable, present participle slipping the cable, simple past and past participle slipped the cable)

1. (nautical, dated) To release the end of the cable (for mooring or anchoring) on board and let it all run out and go overboard, such as when it is not appropriate to weigh anchor.
2. (nautical, idiomatic, dated) To die.
3. (idiomatic, dated) To shed, to get rid of

• “cable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.