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drop the ball

verbid 7654·updated Jun 3, 2026
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commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

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Cognitive

Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

synonym
blunder
pasttense
dropped the ball
presentparticiple
dropping the ball
thirdpersonsingular
drops the ball
pastparticiple
dropped the ball

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

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