Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An error; an oversight.
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- noun idiomatic A
mistake orerror ; aminor misstep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
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Examples
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But I was doing just fine until that slip-up so I would love this re-match.
Mayweather controversially stops Ortiz Reuters 2011
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Also Friday, federal air-safety investigators released data underscoring the hazards of a previously reported slip-up by a controller last month.
Air Controllers Press for Break-Time Naps Andy Pasztor 2011
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"The competition level is so fierce that any slip-up at all means there's no recovery."
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But I was doing just fine until that slip-up so I would love this re-match.
Mayweather controversially stops Ortiz Reuters 2011
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Plenty are waiting for their first slip-up, but while it is true that they haven't yet taken on the sides above them, they held Arsenal and Tottenham and most sides in this league are going to lose to the top three and Liverpool.
Stoke City v Newcastle United - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011
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"Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Crown" read the headlines, and the slip-up has been causing poor Ben nothing but grief ever since.
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They have won 12 of their 13 away matches, drawing last month at Sporting Gijon in their only slip-up on the road.
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“Not an uncommon slip-up,” Washington Post blogger Steven Levingston assured his readers.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Americans do expect a certain amount of decorum and, ideally, sanity from their celebrities, as the response to Melissa Leo's profane slip-up during the Academy Awards demonstrated.
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One slip-up can kill a movie – and a dead movie usually takes a few careers with it.
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