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Meaning of misflip | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
mɪsˈflɪp

Definitions

To flip badly or in error.

Examples

“As a result I had to print my speech in large block letters on the shirt boards with a black-felt pen. In flipping these over at appropriate points, I misflipped — and I "lost" one whole side, and with it a bunch of names I very much wanted to cite.”
“Seeing a pretty girl in every window would cause a paperboy to misflip his papers, not because their watching made him nervous, but because their being in every window made him care less.”
“An offending loaf was tossed over her shoulder among the potted plants; a misflipped potato pancake was scraped off the range and back into the pan; her false teeth were firmly readjusted in front of the camera.”
“Her code held up when the stakes were life and death — even when a misflipped switch triggered alarms that interrupted the astronaut's displays right as Apollo 11 approached the surface of the moon.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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