Pronunciations
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/θɪŋkəʊ/
Noun
A careless mistake made in thinking.
Usage- Slang
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- Examples
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I must have done quite a thinko, but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator.
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1998, K. G. Binmore, Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing, page 34, We need to face the fact that thinkos are likely to be much more important, even though such a source of noise is much harder to model.
Spell-checkers can help with simple types such as misspeIIings and repeated words, but they are little defense against the equally common "thinkos," such as the inconvenience/incontinence example above. Your only defense against thinkos is a careful read.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to grovel through a bunch of code blocks to track down a typo or thinko.
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There are two kinds of linguistic missteps, the typos and the thinkos. Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression. They can make you look foolish, but they aren't really the signs of an intellectual or ethical deficiency, the way thinkos are.
Verb
To make a mistake when thinking.
Usage- Intransitive
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- Transitive