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slip of the tongue collapse: an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking

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

oversight collapse: a mistake resulting from inattention; an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

balk collapse: an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base; the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"

stumble collapse: make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"; miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"; walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"; encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

omission collapse: a mistake resulting from neglect; neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something; any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases; something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions"

lapse collapse: a break or intermission in the occurrence of something; "a lapse of three weeks between letters"; drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards; end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"; let slip; "He lapsed his membership"

trip collapse: an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"; a light or nimble tread; "he heard the trip of women's feet overhead"; a journey for some purpose (usually including the return); "he took a trip to the shopping center"; an exciting or stimulating experience; a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs; "an acid trip"; get high, stoned, or drugged; "He trips every weekend"; put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"; cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up"

slip collapse: the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning); a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.; a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air; a small sheet of paper; "a receipt slip"; an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall; "he blamed his slip on the ice"; "the jolt caused many slips and a few spills"; a young and slender person; "he's a mere slip of a lad"; potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics; insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly; "He slipped some money into the waiter's hand"; get worse; "My grades are slipping"; pass out of one's memory; move smoothly and easily; pass on stealthily; "He slipped me the key when nobody was looking"

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