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miscue
Definitions of
miscue
noun
a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
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type of:
shot
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stroke
(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
noun
a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
synonyms:
parapraxis
,
slip
,
slip-up
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types:
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
type of:
error
,
fault
,
mistake
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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