muffs 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of muff
as in fumbles
to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way muffed the repair job and had to do it again

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muffs

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noun

plural of muff
as in boobs

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Recent Examples of muffs
Verb
Sparks muffs the punt and South Alabama recovers on Texas State's 39-yard line. — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 29 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muffs
  1. fumbles
  2. boobs
  3. boots
  4. miscues
  5. blows
  6. blunders
  7. inaccuracies
  8. trips
Verb
  • Tensions between the galley and the interior continue to escalate over lunch service, when a radio mishap fumbles the order in which the food should go out.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 May 2026
  • The movie fumbles the chance to do something arresting with this seminal period in art.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
Definition of fumbles
Noun
  • In the film, the villain is not the Harvard nerds who initially shun Elle, but the ex-boyfriend who never saw her as anything more than a cardboard cutout of a girl with blonde hair and big boobs.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Margaret left and came back in a new bra, the straps of which could be hooked together into an X across her back to draw her boobs toward the center of her chest.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
Definition of boobs
Verb
  • Olise always takes it and boots the ball straight out of play.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • Dominic Zvada boots a 31-yard field goal to give the Wolverines the lead.
    — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 31 Dec. 2025
Definition of boots
Noun
  • The defensive miscues haven’t been cleaned up, the lineup is still failing to hit with runners in scoring position, and the starting pitching is still giving up early leads and struggling to go deep into games.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 July 2026
  • The miscues, manager John Schneider said, need to be minimized.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of miscues
Verb
  • But anyone who understands sports beyond using them as a vehicle for political commentary knows that athletes routinely play through pain while the action is still live, then react once the whistle blows.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026
  • So the average curve still looks calm while the variance underneath it blows wide open.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of blows
Noun
  • But the show’s episodic structure actually softens the impact of these blunders.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 July 2026
  • The real cost of getting it wrong Marketing blunders are often amusing, and some of these examples have become business school case studies of what not to do.
    — Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Definition of blunders
Noun
  • Additionally, coffee intake was self-reported, meaning that inaccuracies could have crept in.
    — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 21 July 2026
  • Gilbert went on to list some of those inaccuracies, including characters’ ages and the locations where events take place in both shows.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
Definition of inaccuracies
Noun
  • The defense argued the cellular data is not an exact science, and that regardless, there’s no proof d4vd was the one who actually made the trips.
    — Jason Kravarik, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • Who compiled the 100-page list of items to pass through customs on international trips?
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of trips

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