A tripping penalty in ice hockey is called by the referee when a player trips an opposing player with their stick, or uses their skate against the other players skate, causing them to lose balance and fall ("slew footing").
A tripping call usually results in a two-minute minor penalty on the player that caused the infraction. If the player was tripped on a breakaway (with no opponents to pass other than the goaltender), a tripping call may instead result in a penalty shot for the tripped player.
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In the 1920s cartoons, Pecos Bill's love interest was Slue Foot Sue.
In the 1955 film with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, they dance the Sluefoot, a routine with lots of sharp turns and slides - definition of "slew."