Usually means: To make a clumsy mistake.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. flub: Merriam-Webster
  2. flub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flub: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flub: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flub, flub: Wordnik
  7. flub: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flub: Wiktionary
  9. flub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flub: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flub: Dictionary.com
  13. flub: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. flub: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. flub: Rhymezone
  16. flub: FreeDictionary.org
  17. flub: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. flub: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. flub: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  20. flub: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flub: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FLUB: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FLUB: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. flub: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flub: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. flub, flub: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flub: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. flub: Golfer's Dictionary

(Note: See flubbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
noun:  (slang) A fold of fat.
verb:  (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

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