NOUN | act | miscue | a faulty shot in billiards |
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act | miscue, slip, slip-up, parapraxis | a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. |
Sounds | mih'skyuw. | |
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Rhymes | anew ... Yue: 59 rhymes with yuw... |
Meaning | A faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball. | |
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Part of | billiards | Any of several games / games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls |
pool, pocket billiards | Any of various games / games played on a pool table having 6 pockets | |
Broader | stroke, shot | (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand |
Meaning | A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech / speech / speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.. | |
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Synonyms | slip, slip-up, parapraxis | |
Narrower | Freudian slip | A 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 |
Broader | mistake, error, fault | A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
Spanish | desahogo, error, lapsus, resbalón | |
Catalan | error, espifiada, lapsus |
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