Usually means: Failures to hit intended target.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word misses:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. misses: Merriam-Webster
  2. misses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Misses, misses: Vocabulary.com
  5. Misses, misses: Wordnik
  6. misses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Misses, misses: Wiktionary
  8. Misses, misses: Dictionary.com
  9. misses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Misses (album), Misses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Misses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Misses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. misses: FreeDictionary.org
  14. misses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. misses: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misses: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misses: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. misses: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Misses: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Misses: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misses)

▸ noun:  A range of clothing sizes for women of average height and build.
▸ noun:  Eye dialect spelling of Mrs; alternative spelling of Missus.
▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of missus (Mrs) [(colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.]

Similar:
leave out, neglect, lack, omit, lose, escape, overleap, drop, young lady, overlook, more...

Opposite:
bulls-eye, bullseye

Types:
direct hit, near miss, glancing blow, grazing strike, indirect hit, near graze, near glancing blow, more...

Phrases:
near misses, cache misses, misses out, misses the boat, misses a beat, more...

Adjectives:
near, younger, many, little, several, fewer, compulsory, close, cache, clean, pretty



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Similar:
leave out, neglect, lack, omit, lose, escape, overleap, drop, young lady, overlook, more...

Opposite:
bulls-eye, bullseye

Types:
direct hit, near miss, glancing blow, grazing strike, indirect hit, near graze, near glancing blow, more...

Phrases:
near misses, cache misses, misses out, misses the boat, misses a beat, misses stays, misses the cut, misses the bus, Estadi Municipal de Can Misses, misses the mark, this type of thinking misses, more...

Adjectives:
near, younger, many, little, several, fewer, compulsory, close, cache, clean, pretty



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