pratfall
1. a fall onto your buttocks • Hypernyms: spill, tumble, fall 2. an embarrassing mistake • Syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo • Derivationally related forms: botchy (for: botch), botch (for: botch), flub (for: flub), fuck up (for: fuckup), foul up (for: foul-up), bungle (for: bungle), blunder (for: blunder) • Hypernyms: mistake, error, fault • Hyponyms: bobble, snafu, spectacle, bull, fumble, muff, fluff, faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, slip, howler, clanger, trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep
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