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• n  an embarrassing mistake

• The police investigation into the calamity points more to a foul-up than foul play.
• But because of a foul-up in drafting the deepwater leases, 1,000 of them issued in 1998 and 1999 didn't contain the language lifting the exemption for higher prices.
• The marines' word for this is "jacfu"joint American-Chinese foul-up.

• blunder
• blooper
• bloomer
• bungle
• pratfall
• fuckup
• flub
• botch
• boner
• boo-boo

News & Articles

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• Car crashes into a Fresno shopping center
  A shopping center sustained major damage Wednesday when a Fresno woman clipped a barber shop after a simple foot foul-up.
  July 4, 2013 - KFSN-TV Fresno

Quotes

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• Scott Stanzel in Chicago Tribune
  We are trying to understand the ramifications of this congressional farm bill foul-up. We haven't found a precedent for a congressional blunder of this magnitude,said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman. "It looks like it may be back to...
• Kofi Annan in CNN International
  Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the affair "a first-class foul-up" and a UN spokesman Wednesday said the cockpit voice recorder tapes heard by the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington contain some conversations in French.