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slip-up

UK/ˈslɪpʌp/

slip-up noun: a (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.

Noun

slip-up (plural slip-ups)

  1. (idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.
    • I think she will forgive an accidental slip-up, so don’t worry too much about misspeaking.
    • The door step was a broad unhewn rock, brought from the neighboring pasture. It had not a flat and even surface, but was considerably sloping from the door to the road, so that in icy times the scholars in passing out used to snatch from the scant declivity the transitory pleasures of a slide. But...[1839 November, “The District School as It Was. By One who Went to It.”, in Connecticut Common School Journal, volume II, number 4, Hartford, Conn.: Published under the direction of the Board of...

slip-up meaning in Malayalam

slip-up in Malayalam

error, mistake, slip
വഴുതൽ, ഭ്രംശം, പിഴുകൽ, തെറ്റ്, ച്യുതി, ചെറുപിശക്

Examples of slip-up in a sentence

  • But look out for a slip-up, ye careless, for many a time have I seen an urchin's head where his feet were but a second before.[1839 November, “The District School as It Was. By One who Went to It.”, in Connecticut Common School Journal, volume II, number 4...
  • Then, Old Hugo came near a bad slip-up; though he was only one of the gipsies.1867, Orpheus C. Kerr [pseudonym; Robert Henry Newell], “The Miller and His Men”, in Avery Glibun; or, Between Two Fires. A Romance, New...
  • That was a slip-up on the part of the committee.1964 June 26, Richard H[oward] Ichord [Jr.], “Testimony of John Howard Tillotson, Accompanied by Counsel, John F. Eisberg”, in Communist...
  • For the second year in a row at Wimbledon, Roger Federer went to five sets against a Frenchman but this time there would be no slip-ups.2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the...

Synonyms of slip-up

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Forms of slip-up

pluralslip-ups
alternative formslipup

Origin of slip-up

Deverbal from slip up.

Questions about slip-up

What does slip-up mean?
Slip-up means a (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.
What is slip-up in Malayalam?
Slip-up in Malayalam is വഴുതൽ, ഭ്രംശം, പിഴുകൽ. See Slip-up meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use slip-up in a sentence?
But look out for a slip-up, ye careless, for many a time have I seen an urchin's head where his feet were but a second before.
What part of speech is slip-up?
Slip-up is a noun.
How do you pronounce slip-up?
Slip-up is pronounced /ˈslɪpʌp/ (UK).
What is the plural of slip-up?
The plural of slip-up is slip-ups.

Words near slip-up in the dictionary

  1. slip-cueing
  2. slip-halter
  3. slip-halters
  4. slip-on
  5. slip-ons
  6. slip-up
  7. slip-ups
  8. slipage
  9. slipboard
  10. slipboards
  11. slipcase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slip-up (page history and authors); slip-up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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