Gave a pink slip to
The crossword clue "Gave a pink slip to" is answered by AXED, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
AXED
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AXED answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for AXED
Every other clue in this collection answered by AXED, most used first.
- Fired - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
- Chopped down - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
- Canned - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Pink-slipped - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
- Let go - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
- Chopped - used 19 times, most recently in 2017
- Cut - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Sent packing - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
- Cut down - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Gave the boot - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Hewn - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Got rid of - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Canceled - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut drastically - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Hewed - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Used a hatchet - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Terminated - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Canceled abruptly - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Abruptly fired - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Took a hatchet to - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Gave the once-over - EYED, used 87 times
- Gave temporarily - LENT, used 61 times
- Tickled pink - GLAD, used 54 times
- Gave for a while - LENT, used 35 times
- Slip through the cracks - SEEP, used 30 times
- He gave us a lift - OTIS, used 24 times
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