slip-up
a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.
Origin of slip-up
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How to use slip-up in a sentence
Both Time and CNN reinstated Zakaria after determining the slip-up was “an isolated incident.”
Can Fareed Zakaria Survive A Plagiarism Firestorm? | Lloyd Grove | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.
Is The Guardian Holding Back The New York Times’ Snowden Stories? | Lloyd Grove | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSmokers, for example, who may have gone weeks without a cigarette could fall back into a habit after just one slip-up.
When Is It OK to Cheat? The Pros and Cons of Cheat Days | DailyBurn | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA likely answer is that the NSA is waiting for them to slip up.
Use or Look at Online Privacy Tools? NSA Labels You an ‘Extremist’ | Joshua Kopstein | July 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat the slip-up teaches us about the science of rare events.
You can't slip up on um en grab um; en how's a body gwyne to hit um wid a rock?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)"You oughtn't to slip up an' s-startle a lady that-a-way," she said with grave rebuke, and Hale looked humbled.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.The pedestal must of course be free to rotate, and the slide rest to slip up and down the bed.
On Laboratory Arts | Richard ThrelfallFortified by the courage which comes from whisky, they would try and slip up on us in the night and win by a surprise.
The Pirate of Panama | William MacLeod RaineSorley, was to slip up afther mass to take his dinner wid them, and to keep Misther Mc.
The Irish Fairy Book | Various
British Dictionary definitions for slip up
informal to make a blunder or mistake; err
to fall over: he slipped up in the street
informal a mistake, blunder, or mishap
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Other Idioms and Phrases with slip-up
Make a mistake, blunder, as in I slipped up and gave the invitations to the wrong people. [Mid-1800s]
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