trip-up

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    misstep, stumble, trip,

Verbs

  • (v) detect a blunder or misstep
    • The reporter tripped up the senator
    catch,
  • (v) cause to stumble
    • The questions on the test tripped him up
    trip,
  • (v) make an error
    • She slipped up and revealed the name
    slip up, stumble,

Synonyms

catch misstep stumble trip slip up

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