slip up

See also: slipup and slip-up

English

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Verb

slip up (third-person singular simple present slips up, present participle slipping up, simple past and past participle slipped up)

(idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
I hope I don't slip up during my presentation.
- 2023 September 28, James Fretwell, “To purge, or not to purge: Why Kim Jong Un forgives some North Korean officials”, in NK News‎:
  The good fortune of DPRK premier Kim Tok Hun provided the latest evidence that Kim Jong Un, a ruler who presides over a sprawling network of political prison camps, can be magnanimous toward officials who slip up.

Derived terms

slip-up (noun)
slipup (noun)

Translations

to make a mistake

Bulgarian: допускам грешка (dopuskam greška)
Italian: impappinarsi
Swedish: tabba sig

Anagrams

pi plus, pi-plus, pipuls, pupils, suppli, supplì

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