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fumble

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Verb

  1. To handle nervously or awkwardly.
  2. To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
  3. To blunder uncertainly.
  4. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
  5. To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
  6. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
  7. Of a man, to sexually underperform.

Noun

  1. A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
  2. A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.

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