mispunching

Verb

mispunch (third-person singular simple present mispunches, present participle mispunching, simple past and past participle mispunched)

1. To punch the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, keypunch, or similar device.
   • Unlike the computer, the researcher may very well tire of running regression coefficients after the first dozen or two, and begin to misread his data or mispunch the buttons on his desk calculator.1967, Edmund Addison Bowles, Computers in Humanistic Research: Readings and Perspectives, page 95
2. To punch a hole in the wrong place.
   • As will be seen by the accompanying sketch to use this cutter, it is not necessary to punch any holes in sheet before taken to drill press. All that is required is ordinary center punch mark, thereby saving time and labor, also avoiding the liability of workman spoiling the sheet by mispunched hole.1904 May, J.T.J., “A Flue Hole Cutter That Cuts”, in Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way, volume 10, page 16
3. To punch a ball or similar object so that it does not go to the intended destination.
   • Four of us stood behind the baseline while two crouched at the net (expecting at any moment to get hit by an errant serve or mispunched volley).2006, Voices of the Armory, page P-110

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