NOUN
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
How To Use slip-up In A Sentence
- Our ability to foresee and avert techno-terrorism or bio slip-ups may be more like Skating on Stilts over ball bearings in quicksilver. The Volokh Conspiracy » Smallpox in the garage
- They weren’t nearly as willing to accept the countercharge from the Obama campaign that Clinton herself had flip-flopped in answering the question (earlier in the year, while criticizing Bush’s recalcitrance about meeting with rogue leaders, she had expressed practically the same sentiment as Obama), because such a slip-up didn’t track with the emerging campaign narrative of Clinton as disciplined and savvy. Teacher and Apprentice
- Leaving his name off the list was a bad slip-up.
- UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown renamed the famed Omaha beach "Obama beach" in a slip-up while giving a speech to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-day landings in France Saturday (see photo).
- After nursing her father on his deathbed this year, she made a slip-up and forgot to pay for three months. The Sun
- The editor of the newspaper I was working for never let me forget my slip-up.
- We could do with a few slip-ups – basketballers proving too tall to walk through the doors, the "wrong type of mud" at the BMX, an overeager health-and-safety steward snuffing out the Olympic flame. Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John
- Practically invisible or blatantly obvious, these so-called slip-ups made centuries ago survive today beneath vitrified coats of clear overglaze and provide snapshots of the innovative and ingenious decorative techniques employed.
- He lords this over her, berating her for every little slip-up, belittling even her successful activities and doomsaying any new ideas that she comes up with.
- Everyone has slip-ups from time to time and I'm as capable of tripping up as the next person.
