mispatch
To patch wrongly.
Verb
- To patch wrongly.
- Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM. - 1990, PC Mag, volume 9, number 7:
- When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order. - 2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82:
Origin
From mis- + patch.