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flub
[ fluhb ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to perform poorly; blunder; bungle:
He flubbed the last shot and lost the match.
noun
- a blunder.
flub
/ flʌb /
noun
- an embarrassing mistake or blunder
verb
- intr to blunder or make an embarrassing mistake
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- flubber noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Unfortunately, the changes were only cosmetic, an embarrassment Stewart called a “site flub.”
The latest installment came in an embarrassing diplomatic flub by the Prime Minister's office itself.
The DHS secretary will likely survive her "the system worked" flub.
The support he had advanced to the "old flub" he could threaten to withdraw unless the wedding were hastened.
He took the same delight in employing them in his works as he did flim-flams, flub-dubs, and catamarans.
"Flip-flop, flippity-floppity-flub" sounded in progression across the living-room floor.
When a half-grown girl, a half-baked boy, a flub like Mulready—damn his eyes!
And all confessed and joined his party, and he was known as the wisest king of the Flub Dubs.
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