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SLIP OF THE TONGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("slip of the tongue" is a kind of...):
misstatement (a statement that contains a mistake)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slip of the tongue"):
spoonerism (transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words)
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