miscue

Plural: miscues

Noun

• a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
• a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
• In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.
• The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor.
• A miss of the object one intended to hit.

Verb

Verb Forms: miscued, miscuing, miscues

• To make a mistake or a faulty stroke.
• To give an incorrect cue.
• to mishit, strike incorrectly.

Examples

• His miscue with the letters cost him a potential bingo in Words With Friends.

Synonyms

parapraxis, slip, slip-up

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