diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1d91d6621..9a4930800 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
 
 * Can use `T` to specify the default in `case_when()`, (#272).
 
+* `slice()` no longer returns excess rows (#10).
+
 * More translations for tidyr verbs have been added:
   
   * `drop_na()` (@markfairbanks, #194)
diff --git a/R/step-subset-slice.R b/R/step-subset-slice.R
index 51cf0ba1b..1cf1ce343 100644
--- a/R/step-subset-slice.R
+++ b/R/step-subset-slice.R
@@ -56,12 +56,17 @@ slice.dtplyr_step <- function(.data, ...) {
 
   if (length(dots) == 0) {
     i <- NULL
-  } else if (length(dots) == 1) {
-    i <- dots[[1]]
   } else {
-    i <- call2("c", !!!dots)
+    if (length(dots) == 1) {
+      .rows <- dots[[1]]
+    } else {
+      .rows <- call2("c", !!!dots)
+    }
+    # Update logic once data.table #4353 is merged
+    # https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/4353
+    between <- call2("between", .rows, quote(-.N), quote(.N))
+    i <- call2("[", .rows, between)
   }
-  i <- expr(!!i)
 
   step_subset_i(.data, i)
 }
diff --git a/R/tidyeval.R b/R/tidyeval.R
index aaf7d9cae..d1bec1952 100644
--- a/R/tidyeval.R
+++ b/R/tidyeval.R
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ dt_eval <- function(x) {
 # Make sure data.table functions are available so dtplyr still works
 # even when data.table isn't attached
 dt_funs <- c(
-  "CJ", "copy", "dcast", "melt", "nafill",
+  "between", "CJ", "copy", "dcast", "melt", "nafill",
   "fcase", "fcoalesce", "fifelse", "fintersect", "frank", "frankv", "fsetdiff", "funion",
   "setcolorder", "setnames", "tstrsplit"
 )
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-step-subset-slice.R b/tests/testthat/test-step-subset-slice.R
index bd84669ee..c26cc19a3 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-step-subset-slice.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-step-subset-slice.R
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ test_that("can slice", {
     expr(DT)
   )
   expect_equal(
-    dt %>% slice(1:4) %>% show_query(),
-    expr(DT[1:4])
+    dt %>% slice(c(1, 2)) %>% show_query(),
+    expr(DT[c(1, 2)[between(c(1, 2), -.N, .N)]])
   )
   expect_equal(
     dt %>% slice(1, 2, 3) %>% show_query(),
-    expr(DT[c(1, 2, 3)])
+    expr(DT[c(1, 2, 3)[between(c(1, 2, 3), -.N, .N)]])
   )
 })
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ test_that("can slice when grouped", {
 
   expect_equal(
     dt2 %>% show_query(),
-    expr(DT[DT[, .I[1], by = .(x)]$V1])
+    expr(DT[DT[, .I[1[between(1, -.N, .N)]], by = .(x)]$V1])
   )
   expect_equal(as_tibble(dt2), tibble(x = c(1, 2), y = c(1, 3)))
 })
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ test_that("slicing doesn't sorts groups", {
   )
 })
 
+test_that("doesn't return excess rows, #10", {
+  dt <- lazy_dt(data.table(x = 1:2))
+  expect_equal(
+    dt %>% slice(1:3) %>% pull(x),
+    1:2
+  )
+})
+
 # variants ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 test_that("functions silently truncate results", {