Flub

//flʌb// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An error; a mistake in the performance of an action. Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, informal

    "1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111, I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few that I make, not because I′m so good on television but because I′ve been doing it a long time. I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States."

  2. 2
    an embarrassing mistake wordnet
  3. 3
    A fold of fat. Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, informal, transitive

    "‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ′bout? You′re mad as a snake!’ ‘Ever since I was a kid. I was in the Christmas Pageant one year and flubbed my line.’ ‘What was your line?’ ‘I told you I flubbed it!’ he mouthed these words hysterically."

  2. 2
    make a mess of, destroy or ruin wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly suggested by fluff and flop. First appeared in the US as a verb c. 1924, and as a noun c. 1953.

Etymology 2

Possibly suggested by fluff and flop. First appeared in the US as a verb c. 1924, and as a noun c. 1953.

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