Definition: (sports) dropping the ball
Main entry: fumble
Definition: drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
Usage: fumble a grounder
Main entry: fumble
Definition: handle clumsily
Definition: feel about uncertainly or blindly
Usage: She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
Definition: make one's way clumsily or blindly
Usage: He fumbled towards the door
Main entry: flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, ball up, spoil, screw up, mishandle, muck up, muff, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle
Definition: make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Usage: I botched the dinner and we had to eat out; the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement