Definitions for miscue

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miscue mis·cue

Spelling: [mis-kyoo]

IPA: /mɪsˈkyu/

Miscue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in miscue (ceimsu).

Definitions for miscue

noun

1. Sports. a failure to execute a play, stroke, or maneuver properly; an error.
2. Informal. a mistake.
3. Informal. to make a mistake.
4. Theater. to fail to answer one's cue or to answer another's cue.
5. a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.

verb (used with object)

1. to give the wrong cue to.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a miscue.

Origin of miscue

First recorded in 1880-85; mis-¹ + cue¹

Examples for miscue

You're no inventor, but you're always pretty handy in telling me where I make a miscue in my machines.

The miscue he made was to flash his Fortune in the Family Circle.

It remained, though, not to muddle by any slip or miscue what Providence had vouchsafed.

He could see he'd made a miscue—a clean miss, and the white ball in the pocket.

Who originated this scheme of revising the Bible we do not know, but whoever it was made a miscue.

miscue, mis-kū′, n. at billiards, a stroke spoiled by the slipping off of the cue.

It hurts her more than anything to make a miscue on the charitable side.

“C.,” who was painfully conscious that he might have made a miscue in the matter of the quotation, answered sharply.

A miscue brought an oath from his lips, and he banged his cue upon the floor.