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Mix-up   /mɪks-əp/   Listen
Mix-up

noun
1.
A mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.  Synonym: confusion.





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"Mix-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... weeks ago down in Market Square. A little more and that affair could have growed into a first-class race riot. And here last Saturday night followed that mix-up out by the Union Depot when Policeman Gip Futtrell got all carved up and two darkies got purty extensively shot. And night before last the trouble that occurred on that Belt Line car out in Hollandville; that looked mighty threatenin', too, fur a while. And in between ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
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... timber, where the ground was sloping and rough, caused something of a mix-up, and before the Confederate colonel could bring order out of chaos, Colonel Lyon was swooping down upon him from the higher ground. The first and the third battalions were called into this action, and the Confederates ran like sheep down the slope ...
— An Undivided Union • Oliver Optic
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... managed to say in answer to her query. "But it is rather a strange mix-up all around, and I confess I fail to comprehend its full meaning. It is hardly likely your friends will show up to-night, and by morning perhaps we can decide what is best to do. Let me look around outside ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
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... you conceive two mixed masses of men or groups, where every one occupied in front can be struck with impunity from the side or from behind? That is mutual extermination, where victory belongs only to survivors; for in the mix-up and confusion, no one can flee, no one ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
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Words linked to "Mix-up" :   mistake, confusion, fault, error


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