Definitions for miscues

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miscues mis·cue

Spelling: [mis-kyoo]

IPA: /mɪsˈkyu/

Miscues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in miscues (ceimssu).

Definitions for miscues

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 miscues

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

Examples for miscues

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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