Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun miscue

2 senses of miscue

Sense 1
miscue -- (a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball)
       => stroke, shot -- ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot")

Sense 2
slip, slip-up, miscue, parapraxis -- (a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.)
       => mistake, error, fault -- (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults")