Usually means: Make a mistake unintentionally, error.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word slip up:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. slip up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slip up: Merriam-Webster
  3. slip-up, slip up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slip-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slip-up, slip-up, slip up: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slip-up, slip up: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slip-Up, slip-up: Wordnik
  8. slip-up, slip up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slip-up, slip up: Wiktionary
  10. slip-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slip-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slip-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slip-up, slip up: Dictionary.com
  14. slip-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. slip-up, slip up: Rhymezone
  16. slip up: Phrasal Verb Page
  17. slip-up, slip up: FreeDictionary.org
  18. slip-up, slip up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. slip-up, slip up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slip-up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slip-up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slip-up, slip up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slip up: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See slip_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (slip up)

verb:  (idiomatic) To err, falter; to make a mistake, especially a seemingly small error.
verb:  To lose ones footing; to slip.

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