SLIP-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slip-up mean? 

• SLIP-UP (noun)
  The noun SLIP-UP has 1 sense:

1. a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

  Familiarity information: SLIP-UP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIP-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up

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)