miscue

/ˌˈmɪsˌkju/

Other forms: miscues

Definitions of miscue

1. noun

   a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
   type of:

   shot, stroke

   (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
2. noun

   a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
   synonyms: parapraxis, slip, slip-up

   types:

   Freudian slip

   a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals

   type of:

   error, fault, mistake

   a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention