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trip-up

 
Noun trip-up has 1 sense
  1. trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
    --1 is a kind of blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
    Derived forms: verb trip up1, verb trip up3
Verb trip-up has 3 senses
  1. trip up, catch - detect a blunder or misstep; "The reporter tripped up the senator"
    --1 is one way to learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see
    Derived form: noun trip-up1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. trip, trip up - cause to stumble; "The questions on the test tripped him up"
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  3. stumble, slip up, trip up - make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"
    --3 is one way to err, mistake, slip
    Derived form: noun trip-up1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
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