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View definitions for drop the ball

drop the ball

verb as in blunder

verb as in muff

verb as in slip

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Moments later at the other end, Marshall dropped the ball as he dived for the corner - but once Wigan did score then a flurry of points followed either side of half-time.

From BBC

Hull KR winger Burgess, who had dropped the ball in a similar position moments before, opened the scoring after 17 minutes when he dived in at the corner following good work from Lewis.

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“That wasn’t the case. It wasn’t, ‘Hey, we dropped the ball, we were late,’” he said.

Even in the drizzle of a rainy day, the quarterback was dropping the ball right into the hands of his receivers.

However, the PR people who worked for Baldoni and his studio "dropped the ball a little bit" by discussing tactics in texts, he told BBC News.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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