Definitions

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  • noun sports An bad kick
  • verb transitive To kick incorrectly or badly.

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Examples

  • Back in the changing room, after Cyril Knowles's miskick had led to Chelsea winning a League Cup semi-final, Davies wrote of the sound made by the extractor fan: Its low, insistent hum seemed to reverberate round the walls, getting louder and louder as if trying to drive everyone mad, an Orwell 1984 room, a torture chamber where everyone is face to face with his worst fears.

    Football's inside-story tellers change perceptions and expose the soul | Rob Bagchi 2012

  • Macclesfield had never reached the fourth round of the FA Cup and the realisation would have quickly dawned that it was not to be this season the moment Klasnic seized on Jon Bateson's miskick.

    Bolton Wanderers 2-0 Macclesfield Town | FA Cup third-round replay 2012

  • It was the shot, or rather miskick, that rang around the world in February 2003.

    Posh & Becks Andrew Morton 2007

  • It was the shot, or rather miskick, that rang around the world in February 2003.

    Posh & Becks Andrew Morton 2007

  • It was the shot, or rather miskick, that rang around the world in February 2003.

    Posh & Becks Andrew Morton 2007

  • It was the shot, or rather miskick, that rang around the world in February 2003.

    Posh & Becks Andrew Morton 2007

  • Tom Clarke, 15, was playing in a pub garden in Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, when a miskick sent the ball over a fence and into a glass pane next door.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • Bradley Johnson's miskick in the six-yard box gifted Bendtner an opportunity at the near post, but the forward saw his flick touched across the face of goal by Ruddy.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • Our only attempt on target was a bobbling Sol Campbell miskick from a corner which beat Gomes but Apu-Eskimo chested off the line.

    Irish Blogs Arseblog 2010

  • Paul Scholes tied it with a 36th minute miskick from Darren Fletcher's cross.

    Winnipeg Sun 2010

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