miscount

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Verb

miscount (miscounts, present participle miscounting; past and past participle miscounted)

1. To incorrectly count or add up.

Noun

miscount (plural miscounts)

1. An incorrect counting.
   • 2011, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket

     To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.

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