Other forms: mix-ups
A mix-up is a confusion in which things get swapped by mistake. A mix-up over the dates.
It is nobody's fault in particular, which is why the word is used to keep the peace. A mix-up with names or bookings is the commonest kind there is.
1nounmix-upA confusion in which things get swapped by mistake.
“A mix-up at the desk gave them somebody else's room.”
mix-up is a confusion.
Deverbal from mix up.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Phrasal Verbs