flub (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 2 senses of the word *flub*:
VERB	social	flub, botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up	make a mess of, destroy or ruin
NOUN	act	flub, blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, botch, boner, boo-boo	an embarrassing mistake

English > *flub*: 2 senses > noun 1, act
Meaning	An embarrassing mistake.
Synonyms	blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, botch, boner, boo-boo
Narrower	bobble	The momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
	bull	A serious and ludicrous blunder
	clanger	A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
	faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie	A socially awkward or tactless act
	fluff	A blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
	fumble, muff	(sports) dropping the ball
	howler	A glaring blunder
	snafu	An acronym often used by soldiers in World War II
	spectacle	A blunder that makes you look ridiculous
	trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep	An unintentional but embarrassing blunder
Broader	mistake, error, fault	A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
Spanish	blooper, boner, buñuelo, cagada, caída, cantada, cante, chapucear, chapucería, chapuza, disparate, embrollo, equivocación, error, estropeo, flub, gazapatón, gazapo, metedura de pata, patinazo, patochada, pifia, plancha
Catalan	boner, bunyol, espifiada, flub, nyap, pífia
Verbs	flub	make a mess of, destroy or ruin

English > *flub*: 2 senses > verb 1, social
Meaning	make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
Synonyms	botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
Broader	fail, go wrong, miscarry	Be unsuccessful
Spanish	apelotonar, arruinar, cagarla, chapucear, estropear, joderla, pifiar
Catalan	arruïnar, cagar-la, esguerrar, espatllar, espifiar, fer barroerament, fotre
Nouns	flub	an embarrassing mistake

HyperDic: flub