flub
/flʌb/
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Ireland/flʊb/
flub noun: an error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
Noun
flub (plural flubs)
- An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
- 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.1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111
- A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.1997, Garry Marshall, Lori Marshall, Wake Me When It′s Funny: How to Break into Show Business and Stay, page 280
- A fold of fat.
Verb
flub (third-person singular simple present flubs, present participle flubbing, simple past and past participle flubbed)
- To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
- ‘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, pages 88–89 - 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.2008, D. L. White, Acting For Film And Television, page 37
- ‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ′bout? You′re mad as a snake!’
flub meaning in Urdu
flub in Urdu
- بگاڑ, گڑبڑ, بگاڑنا, خراب کر دینا
Forms of flub
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flubs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flubs |
| present participle | flubbing |
| past participle | flubbed |
| past | flubbed |
Origin of flub
Possibly suggested by fluff and flop. First appeared in the US as a verb c. 1924, and as a noun c. 1953.
Words formed from flub
Words that rhyme with flub
Questions about flub
- What does flub mean?
- Flub means an error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
- What is flub in Urdu?
- Flub in Urdu is بگاڑ, گڑبڑ, بگاڑنا. See Flub meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is flub?
- Flub can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce flub?
- Flub is pronounced /flʌb/.
- What is the plural of flub?
- The plural of flub is flubs.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: flub (page history and authors); flub (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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