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What is a Freudian slip?

What is a Freudian slip? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.
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Scott caught the Freudian slip even as it came out of his mouth.
Perhaps it was a Freudian slip but we have heard Hyde and many of us are appalled by the despotic insinuations of that remark.
Now I'm not sure if it is a Freudian slip or not, but this comment in the article made me smile.
Both of us noticed his Freudian slip at the same time, and neither of us knew what to say in the uneasy silence that ensued.
Far from a Freudian slip or an act of garden-variety racism, the coach said, the word was used with the player's best interest at heart.
I assure him that referring to the department with the name reversed was not a Freudian slip.

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