miscue
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈmɪskjuː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /mɪsˈkjuː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
miscue (plural miscues)
- (sports) In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.
- (theater) The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor.
- A miss of the object one intended to hit.
- 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC[1]:
- Some comical defending involving two terrible clearances saw Kingson called on to block Welbeck's strike and then Evatt made amends for his shocking miscue by heading Bent's powerful follow-up over the bar.
Verb
miscue (third-person singular simple present miscues, present participle miscuing or miscueing, simple past and past participle miscued)
- (theater) To give an incorrect cue.
- (transitive) to mishit, strike incorrectly.
- 2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1 – 0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport[2], archived from the original on 8 May 2016: