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flub something up to mess something up; to ruin something. I saw you play in the tournament last Friday. You really flubbed it up, if you don't mind me saying so. You really flubbed up the tournament. See also: up flub the dub Inf. to fail to do the right thing. Martin is flubbing the dub with the fund-raising campaign. Please don't flub the dub this time. See also: dub flub up to make an error. I flubbed up again! See also: up How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Primarily a stuntman, he was athletic enough to play basketball and tumble in a harness in the 1960s Disney films ``The Absent-Minded Professor'' and ``Son of Flubber. As of this writing, the anthrax killer remains at large, but I'm confident Capitol Hill police will eventually discover the illegal caches of Flubber from which such gravity-defying political platforms have been crafted. Sure, the dialogue's as bawdy as ever--"I met Fred MacMurray at the Brown Derby when they were casting Flubber, and he threw me a juicy part," recalls Evie Harris (Jack Plotnick), to which Coco (Clinton Leupp) harrumphs, "And then he put you in the picture"--but the film's stars deliver it in that minimalist deadpan style that marks turn-of-the-millennium humor. |
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