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flub
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flub has 1 sense
- flub(n = noun.act) bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall - an embarrassing mistake; Array is a kind of error, fault, mistake
has particulars: bobble, snafu, spectacle, bull, fumble, muff, fluff, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecism, howler, clanger, misstep, stumble, trip, trip-up
Derived form verb flub1
Verb flub has 1 sense
- flub(v = verb.social) ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
Derived form noun flub1
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
flub, v. & n. US colloq.
--v.tr. & intr. (flubbed, flubbing) botch; bungle.
--n. something badly or clumsily done.
--v.tr. & intr. (flubbed, flubbing) botch; bungle.
--n. something badly or clumsily done.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
flub
bad job, bevue, bitch, bitch up, blow, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead into it, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bugger, bugger up, bungle, clumsy performance, drop a brick, error, etourderie, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, gaucherie, goof, goof up, gum up, hash, hash up, louse up, mess, mess up, miscue, mistake, muff, off day, sad work, screw up, slip, stumble, trip
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