Slip Up

Definition: Slip Up

Slip Up

Verb

1. Make an error.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Slip Up

Crosswords: Slip Up

You're a pretty good judge of crooks, Mrs. Neall; the only place you slip up is with cops (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith)

Yeah, well my date's from a different dimension, so don't slip up. (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore)

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Expression using "slip up": slip up and down. Additional references.

Albanian

gabim (balk, baulk, boob, delinquency, delusion, error, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, trip), bëj gabim (err, fluff, misbelieve, misstep, mistake). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هفا, ‏غلط (lapse, make a mistake, mistake), ‏عطب (crash, wreckage), ‏إنزلق (run, shoot, sideslip, skid, slid, slide, slip, slip by, slither, swim, toboggan), ‏دخل خلسة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сбърквам (be wrong, go amiss, mistake, muff, step off), грешка (blooper, blunder, boss, break, defect, demerit, dereliction, error, fault, inaccuracy, inexactitude, lapse, misdoing, misstep, mistake, muff, slipping, snafu), неуспех (baffle, down, failure, fiasco, fizzle, miscarriage, mishap, repulse, reverse, unsuccess), пропуск (blank, countersign, flaw, gap, lapse, negligence, omission, out, oversight, pass, permit, pretermission, protection, safe conduct, skip, slip), правя грешка (fault, perpetrate), подхлъзвам се (slide, slip). (various references)

Czech

zmýlit se (go wrong, make a mistake, mistake), udìlat botu, chyba (defect, errata, error, failing, fault, inadequacy, lapse, mistake, slip). (various references)

French

se glisser (slide, slink, slip, slither), ne pas être remarqué, lapsus (slip, slip of the pen, slip of the tongue), gaffer (slip), enter doucement, combinaison (slip), cafouiller, cafouillage, bande de papier, bévue (slip). (various references)

German

sich vertun (make a mistake, make a slip, mistake), sich verhauen (have a fight, hit the wrong key, make a mistake, play a wrong note), schnitzer (blooper, blunder, bobble, boner, boob, booboo, carver, goof, howler, solecism), pfuschen (botch, bungle, come unstuck, fudge, scamp, screw up, spoil), patzer (boob, slip), patzen (boob, fumble), ausrutscher (clanger, gaffe, slip). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω λάθοσ (be wrong, go wrong, mistake). (various references)

Hebrew 

מש�'�" (blunder, error, false step, fault, mistake, oversight), לש�'ות (err, lapse, mistake), לפשל (blunder, goof, make a hash of it, screw up), לטעות (err, go wrong, make a mistake, mistake, slip), פליטת פ�" (slip of the tongue), טעות (error, fault, mistake, oversight, wrong). (various references)

Hungarian

melléfogás (blunder, blundering, boner, muff, side dish, trip), felcsúsztat, elront (blew, blown, corrupt, derange, foul up, impair, make worse, Mar, mess up, misfit, rot, spoil, tamper, to addle, to ball up, to bitch, to blemish, to blow, to bollix sg up, to bollocks sg up, to boss, to botch, to cock up, to corrupt, to crap sg up, to deprave, to disorder, to flaw, to foul up, to louse up, to mess, to mess up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to put out of order, to rot, to scupper, to spill the beans, to spoil, to vitiate, to worsen, unmake), baklövés (bad break, balk, blunder, blundering, boner, break, crack, flub-up, goof, howler, slip-up, stumble, trip). (various references)

Indonesian

gelangsat (slide). (various references)

Italian

sbaglio (aberration, error, lapse, mistake, slip), sbagliare (be mistaken, be wrong, err, go wrong in, make a mistake, miscalculate, Miss, mistake). (various references)

Manx

marranys (error, miscalculation, mistake, misunderstanding, oversight), jannoo marranys (err), brock (botch, bungle, cock-up, fiasco, hash, muddle, refuse, remains; badger, wastage). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipslay upay.(various references)

Romanian

se înşela (be under a delusion, deceive oneself, do wrong to smb., make a mistake, mistake, rot), nu reuşi (abort, fail, fall, fall short of, fall through, flop, miscarry, Miss). (various references)

Russian 

ошибка (aberration, bungle, bust, error, failing, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, slip, slipup, slip-up, stumble, trip), ошибиться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pogrešiti (be mistaken, blunder, err, go wrong, make a mistake, mis-step), greška (blooper, bungle, error, fallacy, foult, goof, lapse, lapsus, miscarriage, mistake, slipup, trip, wrong). (various references)

Spanish

tropezar por (stumble, trip, tumble), resbalar (sideslip, slide, slide off, slip), equivocarse (bark up the wrong tree, be on the wrong tack, deceive, deceive oneself, err, go wrong, lapse, make a mistake, misbelieve, misdo, mistake, trip, trip up). (various references)

Swedish

litet misstag, göra en tabbe. (various references)

Turkish

sürçmek (slip, stumble, trip), sürçme (lapse, slip, stumble, trip), yanlışlık (error, falsity, fault, impropriety, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, mistake, slip, wrongness), yanılmak (be mistaken, be off, be wrong, come unstuck, err, get the wrong sow by the ear, make a mistake, misapprehend, mistake, slip, stumble, stumble in, stumble into), yanılma (bias, goof, lapse, misapprehension), hata yapmak (do wrong, err, go astray, goof, lapse, make mistake, nod, slip, stumble, stumble in, stumble into, trip), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, Boner, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip of the tongue), aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, sullenness, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references)

Ukrainian

розчаровувати (deceive, disappoint, disillusion, disillusionize), підсумовувати (abstract, cast, foot, inventory, sum, summarize, totalize), помилитися (back the wrong horse, make a mistake). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pupils, slipup.

-1 letter: pilus, pulis, pulps, pupil.

-2 letters: lips, lisp, pips, plus, puli, pulp, puls, pups, slip.

-3 letters: lip, lis, pip, pis, piu, psi, pul, pup, pus, sip, sup, ups.

-4 letters: is, li, pi, si, up, us.

+1 letter: pileups, pulpits, slipups, uppiles.

+2 letters: pipefuls, plumpish, populism, populist, pulpiest, purplish, supplied, supplier, supplies, suppling, uppishly.

+3 letters: appliques, plumipeds, populisms, populists, pulpiness, pupilages, suppliant, suppliers, supplying.

+4 letters: dipperfuls, popularise, populistic, propulsion, propulsive, pupillages, resupplied, resupplies, septupling, suppletion, suppletive, suppliance, suppliants, supplicant, supplicate.

+5 letters: popularised, popularises, popularizes, populations, postnuptial, propulsions, pulpinesses, purposively, resupplying, semipopular, superpolite, supplanting, suppletions, suppliances, suppliantly, supplicants, supplicated, supplicates.