flub
verb/flʌb/
/flʌb/
[transitive, intransitive] (North American English, informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they flub | /flʌb/ /flʌb/ |
| he / she / it flubs | /flʌbz/ /flʌbz/ |
| past simple flubbed | /flʌbd/ /flʌbd/ |
| past participle flubbed | /flʌbd/ /flʌbd/ |
| -ing form flubbing | /ˈflʌbɪŋ/ /ˈflʌbɪŋ/ |
- flub (something) to do something badly or make a mistake synonym fluff, bungle
- She flubbed the first line of the song.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFlub is used with these nouns as the object:- line
Word Origin1920s: of unknown origin.
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