flub
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /flʌb/
flub (plural flubs)
- (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
- 1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wFRSat2M0YEC&pg=PA111&dq=%22flub%22%7C%22flubs%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SQWNUP7NG-64iAfG0YGQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22flub%22%7C%22flubs%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 111],
- I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few that I make, not because I′m so good on television but because I′ve been doing it a long time. I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States.
- 1997, Garry Marshall, Lori Marshall, Wake Me When It′s Funny: How to Break into Show Business and Stay, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qEJcH4zNGVgC&pg=PA280&dq=%22flub%22%7C%22flubs%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SQWNUP7NG-64iAfG0YGQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22flub%22%7C%22flubs%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 280],
- A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.
- The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it.
- 1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wFRSat2M0YEC&pg=PA111&dq=%22flub%22%7C%22flubs%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SQWNUP7NG-64iAfG0YGQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22flub%22%7C%22flubs%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 111],
- Spanish: (Mexico) metida de pata
flub (flubs, present participle flubbing; past and past participle flubbed)
- (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
- 2003, Trevor Pearson, Living Strictly fore! Pleasure, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gyPFuQAKHM0C&pg=PA88&dq=%22flubbed%22%7C%22flubbing%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XiCNUKqKCcOhigfCzoHIBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22flubbed%22%7C%22flubbing%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false pages 88-89],
- ‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ′bout? You′re mad as a snake!’
- ‘Ever since I was a kid. I was in the Christmas Pageant one year and flubbed my line.’
- ‘What was your line?’
- ‘I told you I flubbed it!’ he mouthed these words hysterically.
- 2003, Trevor Pearson, Living Strictly fore! Pleasure, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gyPFuQAKHM0C&pg=PA88&dq=%22flubbed%22%7C%22flubbing%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XiCNUKqKCcOhigfCzoHIBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22flubbed%22%7C%22flubbing%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false pages 88-89],
- Spanish: (Mexico) meter la pata
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