flub

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

flub
    n 1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: {blunder}, {blooper},
         {bloomer}, {bungle}, {pratfall}, {foul-up}, {fuckup},
         {flub}, {botch}, {boner}, {boo-boo}]
    v 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}, {bodge},
         {bumble}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {muff}, {blow}, {flub},
         {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}]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

FLUB

   <language> 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)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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