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misslice

misslice verb: to slice incorrectly.

Verb

misslice (third-person singular simple present misslices, present participle misslicing, simple past and past participle missliced)

  1. To slice incorrectly.
    • So from now on, if you're missliced or misspliced or end up counted among the dead, you'll be part of a count that will hold perpetrators to account.1987, “Dead Right Way to Rate Hospitals”, in Forbes, volume 139, page 17
    • Surely, not all hamburger buns are missliced, so why don't they slice them higher?2000, David Feldman, Life's Imponderables, page 33

Forms of misslice

third-person singular presentmisslices
present participlemisslicing
past participlemissliced
pastmissliced

Origin of misslice

From mis- + slice.

Questions about misslice

What does misslice mean?
Misslice means to slice incorrectly.
What part of speech is misslice?
Misslice is a verb.
What is the past tense of misslice?
The past tense of misslice is missliced.

Words near misslice in the dictionary

  1. misslaughter
  2. misslaughtered
  3. misslaughtering
  4. misslaughters
  5. missle
  6. misslice
  7. missliced
  8. misslices
  9. misslicing
  10. missment
  11. missments

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