miscue
1. a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball • Hypernyms: stroke, shot • Part Holonyms: billiards, pool, pocket billiards 2. a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. • Syn: slip, slip-up, parapraxis • Derivationally related forms: slip up (for: slip-up), slip (for: slip) • Hypernyms: mistake, error, fault • Hyponyms: Freudian slip
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