slip up

See also: slipup and slip-up

English

Pronunciation

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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)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

2. To lose ones footing; to slip.
   • 2021 April 23, John Currie, chapter 5, in Sound and Affect: Voice, Music, World‎^[2], page 135:

     […] when we witness someone caught up in their own self-importance slip up on a banana peel, we come to a more humble idea of who we are; comedy, in such a formulation, is on the side of human finitude.

Derived terms

• slip-up (noun)
• slipup (noun)

 

Translations

to make a mistake

• Bulgarian: допускам грешка (dopuskam greška)
• Italian: impappinarsi
• Spanish: dar un paso en falso
• Swedish: tabba sig

Anagrams

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