Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Games A stroke in billiards that misses or just brushes the ball because of a slip of the cue.
- noun A mistake.
- intransitive verb To make a miscue.
- intransitive verb To miss a stage cue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In billiards, an accidental slip of the cue at the moment of making a stroke, causing the tip to glance off the ball instead of striking it fairly as intended.
- In billiards, to make a miscue.
- In theatrical, to miss one's cue or answer a wrong cue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Billiards) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.
- noun To make a mistake
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun sports In a
cue sport , to make an error in hitting the ball with thecue . - noun theater The act of missing one's
cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. - noun A miss of the object one intended to hit.
- verb theater To give an incorrect
cue . - verb transitive to
mishit , strike incorrectly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
- noun a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
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Examples
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The other miscue was a postgame commercial segment that went on too long for them to get an interview with Selig explaining the game's ending.
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My view: this kind of miscue is inevitable in the Obama Administration.
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My view: this kind of miscue is inevitable in the Obama Administration.
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It was a costly mistake, the kind of miscue that Brady, in his four Super Bowl appearances, never made in the critical fourth-quarter situation.
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It was a costly mistake, the kind of miscue that Brady, in his four Super Bowl appearances, never made in the critical fourth-quarter situation.
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It was a costly mistake, the kind of miscue that Brady, in his four Super Bowl appearances, never made in the critical fourth-quarter situation.
Pats Pulpit 2010
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