Verb
The ball went right to him but he flubbed the catch.
The actress flubbed several lines. Noun
when she was told her information was wrong, she apologized for the flub and immediately corrected it
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The Giants only committed one error when shortstop Willy Adames flubbed a routine grounder, but there were several instances of sloppy defense on San Francisco’s end.—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 10 May 2026 Both there and in Saturday’s F1 Sprint race, Antonelli flubbed the start or got dusted off the line, depending on your point of view.—David J. Neal
updated May 2, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
Noun
In a recent Instagram post, the 56-year-old former TV journalist uploaded a montage of her past on-air flubs alongside a message about perseverance and living with dyslexia.—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026 An unusual insult in Grease came to be thanks to a flub on an actor's part.—Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for flub