Misflip

//mɪsˈflɪp// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of misflipping.

    "The peninsula, unlike most of the Sounds country, had never been milled or burnt off or gone over by unwanted immigrants: aside from the legendary misflip in navigation, no errors had been made there."

Verb
  1. 1
    To flip badly or in error.

    "As a result I had to print my speech in large block letters on the shirt boards with a black-felt pen. In flipping these over at appropriate points, I misflipped — and I "lost" one whole side, and with it a bunch of names I very much wanted to cite."

Example

More examples

"As a result I had to print my speech in large block letters on the shirt boards with a black-felt pen. In flipping these over at appropriate points, I misflipped — and I "lost" one whole side, and with it a bunch of names I very much wanted to cite."

Etymology

From mis- + flip.

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