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Miscue

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Noun

1. miscue

a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball

2. miscue, parapraxis, slip, slip-up

a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Miscue

see synonyms of miscue
noun
1. billiards
a faulty stroke in which the cue tip slips off the cue ball or misses it altogether
2. informal
a blunder or mistake
verb -cues, -cuing or -cued
3. (intransitive) billiards
to make a miscue
4. (intransitive) theatre
to fail to answer one's own cue or answer the cue of another
5. radio
to start to play (a piece of music or recording) at the wrong point
6. (intransitive) informal
to blunder

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Miscue

see synonyms of miscue
noun
1.  Billiards
a faulty shot in which the tip of the cue slips off the ball
2.  Informal
a mistake; error
verb intransitiveWord forms: misˈcued or misˈcuing
3. 
to make a miscue
4.  Theatre
to miss one's cue or answer the wrong cue

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Miscue

see synonyms of miscue
n.
1. Games A stroke in billiards that misses or just brushes the ball because of a slip of the cue.
2. A mistake.
intr.v. mis·cued, mis·cu·ing, mis·cues
1. To make a miscue.
2. To miss a stage cue.

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