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Definition of Mixup
1. a state of confusion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mixup
Literary usage of Mixup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Criminal Law and Procedure by Elijah Nathaniel Zoline (1921)
"The letter which speaks of the mixup in telephone numbers was the letter of
October 21st, and that letter was concededly sent to the New York Athletic Club, ..."
2. History of the 27th Engineers, U.S.A., 1917-1919 by Walter Renton Ingalls (1920)
"The French sergeant saw them first, and shot two with his pistol before the mixup
became general. Sergeant Rutherford was wounded with a hand grenade. ..."
3. With the Army of the Potomac by Byron Archibald Dunn (1917)
""So you were in the mixup at Winchester, were you?" asked the general. "Yes, and
a bad mixup it was. Milroy held on too long. If he had evacuated one day ..."
4. Transactions of the [1st]-56th Annual Reunion by Oregon Pioneer Association (1915)
"In the mixup one of our wheel oxen had his neck so wrenched that a stream of
blood about the size of a lead pencil spurted from his nose. ..."
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