pratfall

prat·fall

P0503400 (prăt′fôl′)n.1. A fall on the buttocks.2. A humiliating error, failure, or defeat: "His characters not only survive their snarled problems and pratfalls but learn from their experiences" (Joyce Carol Oates).

pratfall

(ˈprætˌfɔːl) nslang US and Canadian a fall upon one's buttocks[C20: from C16 prat buttocks (of unknown origin) + fall]

prat•fall

(ˈprætˌfɔl)

n. 1. a fall on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating. 2. a humiliating blunder or defeat. [1935–40]

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Noun	1.	pratfall - a fall onto your buttocksfall, tumble, spill - a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
	2.	pratfall - an embarrassing mistake blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, bloomererror, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults"bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out"snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked upspectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourselfbull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ballfluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie - a socially awkward or tactless acthowler - a glaring blunderclanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"misstep, trip-up, stumble, trip - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

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