MISCUE
Dictionary entry overview: What does miscue mean?
• MISCUE (noun)
The noun MISCUE has 2 senses:
1. a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
2. a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
Familiarity information: MISCUE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MISCUE (noun)
Meaning:
A faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("miscue" is a kind of...):
shot; stroke ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand)
Holonyms ("miscue" is a part of...):
billiards (any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls)
pocket billiards; pool (any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets)
Meaning:
A minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
parapraxis; slip-up; miscue; slip
Hypernyms ("miscue" is a kind of...):
error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miscue"):
Freudian slip (a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals)
