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1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   "I flubbed the dinner and we had to eat out"
   - botch, bodge [Brit], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, bugger, balls up

1. An embarrassing mistake
   - blunder, blooper [N. Amer], bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, botch, boner, boo-boo, blue [Austral, NZ]

Derived forms: flubbed, flubbing, flubs

Type of: error, fail, fault, go wrong, miscarry, mistake

Encyclopedia: Flub