misflip

Verb

misflip (third-person singular simple present misflips, present participle misflipping, simple past and past participle misflipped)

1. To flip badly or in error.
   • As a result I had to print my speech in large block letters on the shirt boards with a black-felt pen. In flipping these over at appropriate points, I misflipped — and I "lost" one whole side, and with it a bunch of names I very much wanted to cite.2005, James Cagney, Cagney by Cagney, page 194
   • Seeing a pretty girl in every window would cause a paperboy to misflip his papers, not because their watching made him nervous, but because their being in every window made him care less.2007, Henry Petroski, Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer, page 270

Noun

IPA/ˈmɪsflɪp/

misflip (plural misflips)

1. An act of misflipping.
   • The peninsula, unlike most of the Sounds country, had never been milled or burnt off or gone over by unwanted immigrants: aside from the legendary misflip in navigation, no errors had been made there.1968, Arena (Wellington, N.Z.). - Issues 69-81, page 2