fumble

Noun
  1. (sports) dropping the ball (synset 100076732)
    referred to in:
    • american football, american football game - a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
    • ball, baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
    is a type of: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall - an embarrassing mistake
    same as: muff
Verb
  1. Feel about uncertainly or blindly (synset 201317398)
    "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
    is a type of: look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
    same as: grope
  2. Make one's way clumsily or blindly (synset 202055471)
    "He fumbled towards the door"
    is a type of: pass - go across or through
    same as: blunder
  3. Handle clumsily (synset 201213583)
    is a type of: handle, palm - touch, lift, or hold with the hands
  4. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin (synset 202533317)
    "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    is a type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry - be unsuccessful
    same as: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil
  5. Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder (synset 201077720)
    "fumble a grounder"
    referred to in: ball, baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
    is a type of: play - participate in games or sport

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