misslice

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verb

To slice incorrectly.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbmisslice (third-person singular simple present misslices, present participle misslicing, simple past and past participle missliced)

present singular third person misslices · participle present misslicing · participle past missliced · past missliced

  1. To slice incorrectly.

    Surely, not all hamburger buns are missliced, so why don't they slice them higher?

    2000, David Feldman, Life's Imponderables, page 33
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    So from now on, if you're missliced or misspliced or end up counted among the dead, you'll be part of a count that will hold perpetrators to account.

    1987, “Dead Right Way to Rate Hospitals”, in Forbes, volume 139, page 17

    "Virgin Mother! What kind of an example is that?" exclaims one, while another mocks Mary's unreality: “Never did she misslice a tomato or drop a bean on the floor instead of in the soup.”

    2010, Sally Cunneen, In Search of Mary: The Woman and the Symbol, page 12

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APA

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Chicago

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