miscue

Noun
  1. A faulty shot in billiards;
    The cue tip slips off the cue ball (synset 100501938)
    is a type of: shot, stroke - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
    is a part of:
    • billiards - any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
    • pocket billiards, pool - any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
  2. A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. (synset 100074648)
    is a type of: error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
    subtypes: freudian slip - a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals
    same as: parapraxis, slip, slip-up

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