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SLIP-UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Synonyms:

miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("slip-up" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slip-up"):

Freudian slip (a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals)

Derivation:

slip up (make an error)

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