Pratfall - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈprætfɔːl|  American pronunciation of the word pratfall
Brit.  |ˈprætfɔːl|  British pronunciation of the word pratfall

noun

- a fall onto your buttocks
- an embarrassing mistake (syn: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up)

Extra examples

He slipped and took a pratfall into the mud.

Faith without doubt leads to moral arrogance, the eternal pratfall of the religiously convinced.

...a paroxysm of laughter greeted the pratfall...

Word forms

noun
singular: pratfall
plural: pratfalls
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