flub
verb (used with or without object)
to perform poorly; blunder; bungle.
flubber
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a word derived from
flub.
Example Sentences
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The Dow Jones industrial average bounced like flubber over six sessions, tossing around trillions of dollars in wealth.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2018
Multi-coloured parts bound in and out of focus like neon flubber, or else are muffled like a dusty, well-loved, forgotten Otis Redding record lurking at the back of your bookcase.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2015
His decade of shame happened because unlike Hugh Grant, Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Clinton, who bounced back like flubber, Reubens chose not to go out on the contrite circuit--talk-show appearances and celebrity-magazine confession stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew.
From Time Magazine Archive
The professor installs a crude flubberator in a model T Ford, impetuously bounces off into the blue: with flubber the flivver can actually fly.
From Time Magazine Archive
