Definition of "butterfingers" [butterfingers]

• A person who tends to drop things. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Unfortuntely butterfingers is president, so staying there is probably more of a broken pottery situation than leaving at this point."
• "I used to play with my brothers at home, but they always called me 'butterfingers'; so I've quite given it up, and I won't even field for them now."
• "In the past, he has referred to one (Kwame Brown) as "butterfingers" and another (Vladimir Radmanovic) as a "space cadet.""