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  • noun rare A “slip of the mouse”; an error occasioned by the use of a computer mouse.

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Latin: lāpsus (“slip”, “lapse”; in the plural lāpsūs, “slips”, “lapses”) + mūris (“of the mouse”, genitive singular of mūs, “mouse”)

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