fumble

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I don't have to fumble with the card or my wallet either.

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Quick take

(sports) dropping the ball

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fumble gathered in one view.

noun

(sports) dropping the ball

verb

feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

verb

make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fumble.

noun

(sports) dropping the ball

verb

feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

verb

make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"

verb

handle clumsily

verb

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"

See also: botch, bodge, bumble, muff, blow, flub, spoil, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollocks

verb

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"

Example sentences

I don't have to fumble with the card or my wallet either.

You never have to ask for the check, fumble with cards, or do the who-has-this-one dance with other people at the table.

The alternatives I see in Go are to lose type checking or to fumble around with introspection and casts.

Then watch them fumble around mentioning "oh if you have Netflix" and "isn't cable hard to use" and just the sheer lack of vision for the product.

Will you fumble, and say things that contradict yourself, making you appear even more suspicious?

The "sharing" mechanism provides a much nicer experience than forcing the user to fumble around in a tree abstraction that hasn't changed in ~40 years.

Even socially intelligent people are going to generally fumble around a bit if they're forced to try to create a conversation with no real context.

Would I really want to fumble through pressing a button to find the right rewards card, give that to the cashier, have it handed back so I can fumble through pressing buttons again so I can pay?

" Of greatest interest to HN readers, if your bank has a security fumble and your account is debited $25,000 as a result of this, you will almost certainly be reimbursed for every penny of that post-haste.