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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: noun 1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: {blunder}, {blooper}, {bloomer}, {bungle}, {foul-up}, {fuckup}, {botch}, {boner}, {boo-boo}] verb 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: {botch}, {bumble}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {muff}, {blow}, {screw up}, {ball up}, {spoil}, {muck up}, {bungle}, {fluff}, {bollix}, {bollix up}, {bollocks}, {bollocks up}, {bobble}, {mishandle}, {louse up}, {foul up}, {mess up}, {fuck up}] [also: {flubbing}, {flubbed}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 43 Moby Thesaurus words for "flub": bad job, bevue, bitch, bitch up, blow, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead into it, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bugger, bugger up, bungle, clumsy performance, drop a brick, error, etourderie, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, gaucherie, goof, goof up, gum up, hash, hash up, louse up, mess, mess up, miscue, mistake, muff, off day, sad work, screw up, slip, stumble, trip
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: FLUB The {abstract machine} for {bootstrapping} {STAGE2}. [Mentioned in Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974, p. 271]. (1995-03-13) |
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