slip up

vb (intr, adverb)

1. Informal to make a blunder or mistake; err

2. to fall over he slipped up in the street

n slip-up

Informal a mistake, blunder, or mishap

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Verb

slip up - make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"

trip up, stumble

err, mistake, slip - to make a mistake or be incorrect

Translations

? slip up

vi (inf: = err) → sich vertun (inf), → (einen) Schnitzer machen (over, in bei); you really slipped up there! → da hast du aber wirklich Murks gemacht (inf); he usually slips up on spelling → meistens stolpert er über die Rechtschreibung (inf)

slip up → يَرتكِب هفوة udělat chybu begå en lille fejl vertun (sich) κάνω γκάφα equivocarse tunaroida faire une gaffe poskliznuti se sbagliare 間違う 실수하다 vergissen (zich) tabbe seg ut potknąć się cometer um engano совершить ошибку göra en tabbe ทำผิดพลาด hata yapmak mắc lỗi 跌倒

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briefs
calk
Calkin
elapse
fault
Freudian slip
half-slip
lapse
miscue
mistake
parapraxis
pink slip
sideslip
slide
SLIP
slip clutch
slip noose
slip off
slip ring

We have to be on the ball all the time now because we can't afford to slip up.

NO MORE SLIP-UPS WARNS WILKINS by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)

do not let the slip ups keep you from achieving the goals you have set out to do in posters Slip ups are what makes an otherwise great poster printing into something that you are not satisfied with.

How to Prevent Errors from Messing up Your Posters by Lynne Saarte / Internet and Businesses Online community

And Strachan knows they cannot afford any more slip ups in their final ten games if they are to retain their crown.

Strachan: Any more slip-ups & title's dead & buried; SPL: MOTHERWELL ... by The Mirror (London, England)