1) American football terminology 2) Bloomer 3) Blooper 4) Blunder 5) Boner 6) Boo-boo 7) Botch 8) British rock music group 9) Bungle 10) Clumsily drop 11) Drop the ball 12) Dropping the ball 13) Feel around 14) Feel for 15) Flub 16) Football flub 17) Foul-up 18) Fuckup 19) Fumble about 20) Gridiron mishap
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1) Bobble 2) Bollix 3) Bollocks 4) Bumble 5) Drop 6) Dropped-ball 7) Drop the ball 8) Err 9) Grope 10) Mishandle 11) Muff
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A fumble in American and Canadian football occurs when a player who has possession and control of the ball loses it before being downed (tackled) or scoring. By rule, it is any act other than passing, kicking, punting, or successful handing that results in loss of player possession. A fumble may be forced by a defensive player who either grabs or ...
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Term used to describe an offensive player who drops or loses possession of the ball during the course of a play. When a ball is fumbled, either team can attempt to recover the loose ball.
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• (v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. • (v. i.) To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. • (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. • (v. t.) To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.Fumble: words in the...
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Ball is dropped during play.
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(from the article `football, gridiron`) ...`first down` by advancing the ball 10 yards in four downs or fewer and can retain the ball with repeated first downs until it scores or until the ...
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1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. 'Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.' (Fielding) ... 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. 'My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles.' (Chesterfield) 'Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.' (Wordsworth) ... 3. To ha...
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Fum'ble transitive verb To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
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Fum'ble intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fumbled ; present participle & verbal noun Fumbling .] [ Akin to Dutch fommelen to crumple, fumble, Swedish fumla to fusuble, famla to grope, Danish famle
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[Football] when a ball carrier loses possession by dropping the ball or having it knocked away before a play ends; the first player to regain possession of the loose ball is said to make the recovery, and his team becomes the offense.
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Not to be confused with a muff. A fumble is the drop of a ball that a carrier had under their control.
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a ball that a player accidentally lost possession of; in Canadian football the term includes muffs.
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Fumble is slang for to have impotent or ineffective sex.
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[
n] - dropping the ball (in baseball or football) 2. [v] - make one`s way clumsily 3. [v] - handle clumsily 4. [v] - drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder in baseball
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verb feel about uncertainly or blindly; `She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom`
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muff noun (sports) dropping the ball
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make one's way clumsily or blindly
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