slip-up

[ slip-uhp ]
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noun
  1. a mistake, blunder, or oversight: Several slip-ups caused a delay in the delivery of the books.

Origin of slip-up

1
First recorded in 1850–55; noun use of verb phrase slip up

Other words for slip-up

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How to use slip-up in a sentence

  • 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 pedestal must of course be free to rotate, and the slide rest to slip up and down the bed.

    On Laboratory Arts | Richard Threlfall
  • Fortified 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 Raine
  • Sorley, was to slip up afther mass to take his dinner wid them, and to keep Misther Mc.

British Dictionary definitions for slip up

slip up

verb(intr, adverb)
  1. informal to make a blunder or mistake; err

  2. to fall over: he slipped up in the street

nounslip-up
  1. informal a mistake, blunder, or mishap

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Other Idioms and Phrases with slip-up

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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