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mis·kick | \ ˌmis-ˈkik 
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\miskicked; miskicking
Definition of miskick
sports
: to kick in a faulty manner
… when the ball is knocked into the box seven minutes from time, he miskicks so violently that he falls over …— Nick Hornby : to kick wrongly
One minute later, Italy's Cristian Zaccardo tried to clear a United States free kick and miskicked the ball into the Italian goal.— Jere Longman
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miskick \ ˈmis-ˌkik \ noun, plural miskicks
\ noun, plural miskicks
We got off to a slow start and had a lot of miskicks and missed shots. — Kory Pinard
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The first known use of miskick was in 1891
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