flub

An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.AustraliaCanadaNew-Zealand

• 1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111, I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few

A fold of fat.AustraliaCanadaNew-Zealand

To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.AustraliaCanadaNew-Zealand

• The actor that detained her had one line in that particular scene and flubbed it. And then flubbed it again...and again. And again, all the while assuring the director and the crew that he ‘knew his lines’ and then flubbed them again.