HyperDic: slip-up

English > 1 sense of the word slip-up:
NOUNactslip-up, slip, miscue, parapraxisa minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
English > slip-up: 1 sense > noun 1, act
MeaningA minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc..
Synonymsslip, miscue, parapraxis
NarrowerFreudian slipA slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts / conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals
Broadermistake, error, faultA wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Spanishdesahogo, error, lapsus, resbalón
Catalanerror, espifiada, lapsus
Verbsslip upmake an error

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