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Gave a quick look and slid off (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

glanced

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'gave a quick' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'look and slid off' is the wordplay.
'look' becomes 'glance' (glance is a kind of look).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'slid off' becomes 'd' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'glance'+'d'='GLANCED'

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(Other definitions for glanced that I've seen before include "Looked quickly" , "Peeked" , "Looked briefly or bounced off" , "Took a quick look" , "Glimpsed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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