miskick

verb

mis·​kick ˌmis-ˈkik 

miskicked; miskicking

transitive + intransitive

sports

: to kick in a faulty manner

… when the ball is knocked into the box seven minutes from time, he miskicks so violently that he falls over …

—Nick Hornby

: to kick wrongly

One minute later, Italy's Cristian Zaccardo tried to clear a United States free kick and miskicked the ball into the Italian goal.

—Jere Longman

miskick

ˈmis-ˌkik 

noun

plural miskicks

We got off to a slow start and had a lot of miskicks and missed shots.

—Kory Pinard

Word History

First Known Use

1891, in the meaning defined above