Chiefly colloq. [f. next vb.] An act of forgetting; a lapse of memory.
1861. Ivatts, Handbk. Railw. Station Managem., 27. Errors of Judgment and Casual Mistakes, including ‘Forgets.’
1880. J. Payn, Confid. Agent, I. 111. Oh! I thought you might have made a forget of it.
1885. T. Mozley, Remin. Towns, etc., I. ix. 44. I was very liable to momentary forgets, transpositions and misplacings of words.
