Flub

Quick meaning: Flub is a noun meaning (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

Meaning

(informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

More Meanings

1. (US, Australia, slang) A fold of fat.
2. (informal, transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

Example Sentences

A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.

The pressure public speaking puts on a person will occasionally cause these little flubs, so don′t panic when they happen to you. The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it.

The actor that detained her had one line in that particular scene and flubbed it. And then flubbed it again...and again. And again, all the while assuring the director and the crew that he ‘knew his lines’ and then flubbed them again.

‘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.

Word Forms

• flubs
• flubbing
• flubbed

Synonyms for flub

Depending on context, synonyms include blunder, muff, bollix, spoil, bobble, bollocks.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blooper, foul up, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle.

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