bobble

The word "bobble" is a verb that is used when someone drops something or makes a mistake.

• The player tried to catch the ball, but he bobbled it and it fell to the ground.
• In the last play of an important football game, the quarterback bobbled the ball when it was tossed to him, resulting in a fumble. (fumble = a "live" ball dropped and available for the opposing team to pick up.)
• The ball was bobbled and the team lost the game.
• A waitress bobbled some plates she had picked up from a table. Despite her best efforts to save the plates from falling, they crashed to the ground.
• When a game show contestant bobbled the answer to a simple question, everyone knew she was going to lose.

A bobblehead is a type of toy or novelty collected by children and adults.

• Upon entering the baseball stadium, we were given souvenir bobbleheads that resembled some of the players.
• The people at the meeting looked like a bunch of bobbleheads as they agreed with absolutely everthing their boss had to say.
• Jerry’s bobblehead collection includes Obama and Clinton bobbleheads.

Obama and Clinton bobbleheads

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March 26, 2018