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- noun slang, neologism A
careless mistake made inthinking .
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Examples
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But it looks like a little "thinko" slipped through in (6).
RealClimate 2009
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But it looks like a little "thinko" slipped through in (6).
RealClimate 2009
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A lovely word (which I think might have been coined by Daniel Dennett) is 'thinko'.
Freemania 2008
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A lovely word (which I think might have been coined by Daniel Dennett) is 'thinko'.
Freemania 2008
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And just as it's too late to recall the nerve impulse, I see the thinko...
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Oops, major typo/thinko time: That should of course be "imminent"!
"Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Results." Ann Althouse 2006
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I missed two questions because of that particular thinko.
2006 January 2006
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I missed two questions because of that particular thinko.
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Quickly revert thinko of needing and using ResId to construct aSearchFormats and aReplaceFormats; instead provide layout:: Context in the place of layout:: Window.
Planet go-oo 2008
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You've got a thinko in the Chartjunk paragraph, Amp - you mean Obama vs two 'traditionalists' from California who are all put out about gender-neutral marriage forms.
feminist blogs 2008
alankinna commented on the word thinko
I am not the first one to think of "thinko" a word to mean a mistake of the perceptual kind, as much as "typo" means a mistake of the dactylographic kind.
Know big deal.
February 12, 2007