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  • noun Alternative spelling of slip-up.

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slip +‎ up

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Examples

  • At any rate, I forgot all about the title slipup when I actually read through the text.

    stevenberlinjohnson.com 2009

  • The Denowh/Denoweth slipup is only natural, probably confusing him with Chenoweth over in Idaho.

    Attack dog David 2005

  • My word slipup escaped unnoticed by anyone but me.

    CHOICE SNOW • by Diane Hoover Bechtler 2009

  • At Eel River, I had what I may call a slipup -- whether the name of the river had anything

    From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit; the Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph: The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life. 1893

  • I just hope they now take full advantage of this so called slipup and go three points clear tonight.

    unknown title 2009

  • This is not a minor kind of slipup that you say, listen, give a little suspension here ...

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2007 2007

  • There had been some kind of slipup, and the cruise I won at the auction is set for next week.

    Santa Cruise Mary Higgins Clark 2006

  • Get so upset with yourself over your slipup, you somehow end up being the victim.

    The Lo-Down Lo Bosworth 2011

  • Saying that he often was cut out the process -- told that it not his business -- or protested by staying away -- Billy bemoaned the fact that he'd get pinned with the slipup, anyway -- they let him "take the bullet."

    Billy Ray Cyrus: 'I'm Scared For Miley' Jordan Zakarin 2011

  • Since all it knows how to do is strike back at defectors, one scrambled signal or slipup can send Tit for Tat spiraling ever downward into vendettas that overshadow those seen in Romeo and Juliet, between the Hatfields and McCoys, or anything witnessed in Corsica, for that matter.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

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