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What does slip up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word slip up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
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A good guy with a gun can turn into a bad guy due to one slip up or a simple misunderstanding and an itchy trigger finger.
Then that little fellow would slip up and steal some fruit cake that one of the officers had left there.
They know that you are going to make mistakes and you are going to slip up.
His accent is nearly impeccable, and I was listening closely for him to slip up.
And that is what makes the investigators anxious because they think he will become overconfident and slip up.
The insufferably righteous Morgan had followed Harry for years, waiting for him to slip up and break the rules again.

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