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muff n. a warm tubular covering for the hands
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muff v. fail to catch, as of a ball
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muff n. [
fumble] (sports) dropping the ball
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muff v. [
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, 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] 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"
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