Definition of a slip up

slip up

noun

• a mistake. (Usually written either slip-up or slipup.)

                                                                                                                                   
  
  Citation from "Dumped, But Not Down", Psychology Today, Carlin Flora, July 01 2007 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Mar 24 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 24 2010.

verb

• to make a mistake.

  Last edited on Mar 24 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 14 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'slip':
get the pink slip	Definitions include: to be fired from a job.
give the slip	Definitions include: to escape someone.
nip slip	Definitions include: "nipple slip".
pink slip	Definitions include: termination from a job.
slip	Definitions include: to decline in one's talent or skill.
slip a mickey	Definitions include: to secretly add laxative to someone's drink with evil intent.
slip one	Definitions include: to have sex with someone, as the penetrator.
slip (one) some shlong	Definitions include: to give ones penis to a girls vagina; to have sex with a girl
slip on the fun sticks	Definitions include: to be high or intoxicated, similar to loopy.
slip the pickle	Definitions include: for a male to have sexual intercourse.
slip through the backdoor	Definitions include: to perform anal sex.
Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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