(sports) dropping the ball

[ Syn: muff ]

feel about uncertainly or blindly; She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom

[ Syn: grope ]

make ones way clumsily or blindly; He fumbled towards the door

[ Syn: blunder ]

handle clumsily

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 , 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 ]

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; fumble a grounder'