Plural of flub; multiple mistakes or badly performed actions.
Simple plural of 'flub', created by adding '-s'. As the singular 'flub' became popular in 20th-century speech, 'flubs' quickly followed as the standard plural.
Movie directors and actors were obsessed with collecting 'flubs'—mistakes that happened during filming. This led to entire TV shows dedicated to 'blooper reels' showing actors' flubs, making the word part of pop culture.
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