near miss

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
near miss
    n 1: an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "near miss":
      close call, close shave, close squeak, collision, collision course,
      confrontation, crack-up, crash, encounter, error,
      hairbreadth escape, joining, meeting, miss, mistake, narrow escape,
      narrow squeak, near go, near miss, near thing, rencontre, slip,
      slipup, tight squeeze

    

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