[ noun ] a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind <noun.communication>
Typo \Ty"po\, n. [An abbreviation of typographer.] A compositor. [Colloq.]
Typo \Ty"po\, n. [An abbreviation of typographical error.] a typographical error; an error in typing, printing, etc. [Colloq.] [PJC]
Robert Carroll, the reporter, says the error was "just a typo," that may have occurred because he typed his story "into a (computer) system I'm not too familiar with.
"You caught what must be either a typo or a lapse in the synapses of the press secretary," said McCurry.
Now that charge ruffles Mr. Snyder: "It was just a typo, a clerk's error, that's all."
"When my people see a typo anyplace, I want them to step on it like a roach," DeGarmo said Wednesday.