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n. (act) | 1. bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| ~ bobble | the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball.; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" |
| ~ snafu | an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up. |
| ~ spectacle | a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself. |
| ~ bull | a serious and ludicrous blunder.; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" |
| ~ fumble, muff | (sports) dropping the ball. |
| ~ fluff | a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines). |
| ~ faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie | a socially awkward or tactless act. |
| ~ howler | a glaring blunder. |
| ~ clanger | a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate.; "he dropped a clanger" |
| ~ misstep, trip-up, stumble, trip | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder.; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep" |
v. (social) | 2. ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | make a mess of, destroy or ruin.; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
| ~ go wrong, miscarry, fail | be unsuccessful.; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
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