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Misplay

noun

(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed. Synonym: error.

verb

Play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note.

Play wrong or in an unskillful manner.

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"Misplay" Quotes from Famous Books

... bossy!" yelped the dear little old lady, in sudden and dismaying rage. "I'll talk if I want to. Have they been bullying you, Claire? Or your boy? I tell you, boy, these families are fierce. I was brought up in Brooklyn—went through all the schools—used to be able to misplay the piano and mispronounce French with the best of 'em. Then Gene's pa and I came West together—he had an idea he'd get rich robbing the Injuns of their land. And we went broke. I took in washing. I learned a lot. I learned a Gilson was just the same ...

— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... then imminent above their heads, could stun a man or break the fragile bones of a woman. The captain of Number Nine was unconscious that he was holding his breath. He was oblivious of the man. It was the woman. Did she lose her head or courage, or misplay her muscular part for a moment, she could be hurled a hundred feet by that giant buffet and left wrenched, helpless, and breathless to be pulped on the coral bottom and sucked out by the undertow to be battened on by the fish-sharks too cowardly to take ...

— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London

... who said he was from Phoenix," put in Butch. "You made a misplay, there, Plimsoll. That chap ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn