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SLIP-UP
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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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