Misflip
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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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