Thinko

/θɪŋkəʊ/ · noun

Meaning

(slang) A careless mistake made in thinking..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang) A careless mistake made in thinking.
2. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To make a mistake when thinking.

Example Sentences

I must have done quite a thinko, but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• thinkos
• thinkoing
• thinkoed
• thinko'd

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