trip-up
Meanings
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder;
- "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"
- "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"
- "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
- detect a blunder or misstep;
- "The reporter tripped up the senator"
- cause to stumble;
- "The questions on the test tripped him up"
- make an error;
- "She slipped up and revealed the name"