Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To botch; bungle.
- n. The act or an instance of botching or bungling: "Their literature leans toward a comedy of small social flubs and withered chastity” ( James Wolcott).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. a mistake, an error, especially in performance
- v. to goof, fumble, or err; especially to execute or perform poorly
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- n. an embarrassing mistake
Etymologies
- Origin unknown.
Examples
“WooMe says the photo flub is just an honest mistake.”
“The real reason was to erase any doubt about his power, after what some called the flub heard round the world.”
“Ms. Trye says her business partners dismissed the incident as a minor flub, which is one reason why she's since dissolved the partnership and today runs Trye”
The Wall Street Journal: For Some Bosses, Tough Love Isn't Easy to Give
“The file name flub was discovered by The Washington Post”
“Mayor Bloomberg called this yet another "flub" in a long line of mistakes.”
The Huffington Post: Confusion Grips Board Of Elections As General Election Looms
“Obama did kind of flub the Rockefeller reference, but he did it in a sly way that was factually correct but left the audience with the incorrect impression the the current Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, voted against the war in Iraq.”
“You may want to start putting quotation maks around the word "flub" and "gaffe".”
“I have to believe that the Chief Justice's "flub" ... by John Sanchez Jr. on Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 at 7: 10: 41 PM”
“It surprises me how many people would be willing to subject themselves or their children to some makeshift vaccination now, considering the last Swine Flu debacle, the MMR Autism link and the recent Baxter 'flub'.”
“Memo to TV networks: There's nothing hackers like better than replays showing tour pros are human — and that they "flub" and "stab" short shots like the rest of us.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flub’.
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Incorrectum
Mistakes, Errors and Accidents.
nihilartikel, solecism, bevue, corrigendum, acyrology, cacoepy, fido, hamartithia, jeofail, mésalliance, mumpsimus, pseudochronism and 63 more...
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
wryanlb IN the Knight Storm Drum and Bugle Corps in the Late 1990's, a "flub" was a marching bass drum with one head removed and mounted horizontally Oct 1, 2011