Found 3 hits - Term: miscue, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
miscue \miscue"\, n.
1. billiards a false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue
slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as
desired.
1913 webster
2. hence: to make a mistake; especially to fail to execute a
necessary or expected action at the proper time, such as
making a play in sports, or saying one's line in a drama.
pjc
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
miscue
n 1: a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue
ball
2: a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or
writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. syn:
slip, slip-up, parapraxis
see also:
slip slip-up parapraxis
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
65 moby thesaurus words for "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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