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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To botch; bungle.
  2. 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

  1. To bang; flop.
  2. n. Same as foozle, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a mistake, an error, especially in performance
  2. v. to goof, fumble, or err; especially to execute or perform poorly

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  2. n. an embarrassing mistake

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown.

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  • 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

‘flub’ has been looked up 1084 times, loved by 3 people, added to 17 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 9.