Noun
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(sports) dropping the ball
Verb
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drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
"fumble a grounder"
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make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- botch up - screw up - ball up - muck up - bollix up - bollocks up - louse up - foul up - mess up - fuck up -
handle clumsily
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make one's way clumsily or blindly
"He fumbled towards the door"
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feel about uncertainly or blindly
"She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"