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miscue
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun miscue has 2 senses
- miscue(n = noun.act) Array - a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball; Array is a part of billiards, pocket billiards, pool
- miscue(n = noun.act) parapraxis, slip, slip-up - a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.; Array is a kind of error, fault, mistake
is a kind of shot, stroke
has particulars: freudian slip
CIDE DICTIONARY
miscue, n.
- A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired. [1913 Webster]
- To make a mistake; [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
miscue, n. & v.
--n. (in snooker etc.) the failure to strike the ball properly with the cue.
--v.intr. (-cues, -cued, -cueing or -cuing) make a miscue.
--n. (in snooker etc.) the failure to strike the ball properly with the cue.
--v.intr. (-cues, -cued, -cueing or -cuing) make a miscue.
THESAURUS
miscue
bad job, balk, be all thumbs, bevue, blooper, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, error, etourderie, false move, false step, faux pas, flounder, flub, fluff, foozle, fumble, gaucherie, hash, inadvertence, inadvertency, lapse, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, loose thread, lumber, make a miscue, make a mistake, mar, mess, misapprehend, misconceive, misidentify, misinterpret, misstep, mistake, misunderstand, muddle, muff, murder, off day, omission, oversight, play havoc with, sad work, slip, slipup, spoil, stumble, trip, wrong step
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