muff

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a short tube of fur or warm cloth, used by women in the past to keep their hands warm in cold weather

especially in sport, a mistake, a dropped catch, or a badly performed action:

His World Series muff lives in infamy.

One of the scratch runs was thanks to Rodriguez's muff of an easy bouncer in the sixth.

to spoil an opportunity or do something badly:

I only had two lines in the whole play and I muffed them.

in sport, to fail to catch a ball or to perform an action badly:

Williams muffed the handover, preventing the US team from even finishing the 4x100 relay.

Samuel muffed his tackle, and Johnson scored from six yards.

to fail to catch a ball, or do something badly:

She muffed her lines in her first stage appearance.