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• n  an embarrassing mistake
• v  make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• Sometimes you flub it and have to retype the letters, but otherwise you don't think about it much.
• Once worried that Yao would flub his NBA debut, local newspapers kept coverage of him to a minimum in the beginning of the season lest fans be disappointed; but now Chinese are .
• A veteran New York City news anchor flubs a line and an obscene catch phrase goes viral on the Internet.

• blunder
• blooper
• bloomer
• bungle
• pratfall
• foul-up
• fuckup
• botch
• boner
• boo-boo
• bodge
• bumble
• fumble
• botch up
• muff
• blow
• screw up
• ball up
• spoil
• muck up
• fluff
• bollix
• bollix up
• bollocks
• bollocks up
• bobble
• mishandle
• louse up
• foul up
• mess up
• fuck up

News & Articles

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• Say What?!? Neil Patrick Harris Drops The N-Word In Tony Awards Number Alongside Mike Tyson
  It wasn’t a flub of Michael Richards proportions, but normally mild-mannered Neil Patrick Harris , hosting Sunday’s Tony Awards, raised a few eyebrows dropping the N-word during his opening number… READ ON
  June 10, 2013 - RadarOnline.com
• Editorial: Still a chance for Perry to address transportation flub
  Topping the list of flubs from the 2013 Legislature is transportation funding. The dropped ball has Gov. Rick Perry’s fingerprints all over it, but it’s not too late to make some kind of gain.
  June 8, 2013 - Dallas Morning News

Quotes

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• Drew Barrymore in DailyIndia.com
  I know Lindsay, and I like her very much,Barrymore said. "You just have to try to be as graceful as you can. You know, you flub, you flub. And that's life......I think, do what you want, but just be professional."
• Tiger Wood in ESPN
  I had a hard time making a decision what I was going to do,Woods said. "Am I going to throw it up in the air? No, I'll let it roll. No, I'll throw it up. No, I'll let it roll. Decided to go with the flub, instead."
• Emilio Estevez in MTV.com
  We need to do something to inspire the young people to re-engage, and I think it's going to take somebody who is charismatic, who speaks from his heart and who is not afraid to, you know, flub,Estevez said. "There's nobody out there yet....