PRATFALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pratfall mean? 

• PRATFALL (noun)
  The noun PRATFALL has 2 senses:

1. a fall onto your buttocks

2. an embarrassing mistake

  Familiarity information: PRATFALL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRATFALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fall onto your buttocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pratfall" is a kind of...):

fall; spill; tumble (a sudden drop from an upright position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An embarrassing mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall

Hypernyms ("pratfall" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pratfall"):

bobble (the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball)

snafu (an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up)

spectacle (a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase 'make a spectacle of' yourself)

bull (a serious and ludicrous blunder)

fumble; muff ((sports) dropping the ball)

fluff (a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines))

faux pas; gaffe; gaucherie; slip; solecism (a socially awkward or tactless act)

howler (a glaring blunder)

clanger (a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate)

misstep; stumble; trip; trip-up (an unintentional but embarrassing blunder)