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☆ slip·-up (slip′up′)

noun

  1. an error or oversight
  2. an unlucky happening; mishap
Also written slipup slip′·up′

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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