Definition of "muffing" []

• Present participle of muff. (verb)

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• "Another athlete who has been unfairly maligned for years is Bill Buckner, whose muffing of a ground ball helped cost the Boston Red Sox the 1986 World Series."
• "He had trouble with the sticky kikuya grass, muffing a chip on the second hole to make bogey, and with his driver, hooking his tee shot on the third so badly that it struck a eucalyptus tree 170 yards off the tee, leading to another bogey."
• "In effect, Scotland Yard, which muffed the scandal first time round, appears bent on muffing the task one more time in a welter of hyperactive zeal."