- trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep - 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"
--1 is a kind of blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo