slipup
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slip up
verbDefinition of slip up (Entry 2 of 2)
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Synonyms for slipup
Synonyms: Noun
blunder, bobble, boo-boo, boob [British], brick, clanger [British], clinker, error, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, stumble, trip
Synonyms: Verb
blunder, boob [British], err, flub, fluff, foul up, fumble, goof (up), louse up, mess (up), screw up, stumble, trip
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Examples of slipup in a Sentence
Noun
We were late because of a slipup in the schedule. the marketing director made sure there were no slipups for the important presentationVerb
if you slip up in copying the data, the final result will of course be wrong
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups. — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, "Why Joe Biden’s Gaffes Matter," 13 Aug. 2019 Separate congressional investigations began delving into a number of such operational and maintenance slipups by Southwest more recently, though one person familiar with the details said those inquiries didn’t have any impact on the personnel moves. — Alison Sider, WSJ, "FAA Reassigns Senior Managers in Office Overseeing Southwest Airlines," 25 June 2019 Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are living it up in Paris ahead of their second wedding ceremony, which is apparently just days away (thanks to a slipup from Dr. Phil). — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, "Sophie Turner, Priyanka Chopra, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas Cannot Be Bothered on Their Parisian Cruise," 24 June 2019 These slipups could contribute to foodborne illness as well. — Cassie Shortsleeve, SELF, "Should You Be Washing Chicken Before You Cook It?," 10 Apr. 2019 Just one more slipup, a night where the ball squirts out of the basket, where his players are a little too careless or where their opponents are just too hot, and all of it ends. — Dan Woike, latimes.com, "Rockets take an edge despite an injury to Paul, but Warriors' Kerr doesn’t sound like a guy on brink of losing his title," 25 May 2018 In fact, this was just one item on the embarrassingly long laundry list of slipups in our first few months together. — Anayo Awuzie, The Cut, "The Struggle of Learning How to Be a Girlfriend for the First Time," 19 Apr. 2018 Regardless of Dyson’s slipup, each member of the trio still boasts an ERA under 3.00. — Ethan Bauer, miamiherald, "This Florida Gators baseball player is on track to be the best hitter is UF history | Miami Herald," 3 Apr. 2018 To be clear, such strictness would be reasonable if avoiding slight slipups were a defining characteristic of the competition—for example, in sports like diving or figure skating—but that is not the case in long- and middle-distance running. — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, "It's Time to Change the Rules of Track and Field," 28 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'slipup.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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