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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fall onto your buttocks
2: an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: argot prat buttocks + fall Date: 1930 1. a fall on the buttocks 2. a humiliating mishap or blunder

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US sl. 1 a fall on the buttocks. 2 a humiliating failure.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pratfalls) 1. If someone takes a pratfall, they make an embarrassing mistake. (mainly AM) They're waiting for the poor little rich girl to take a pratfall. N-COUNT 2. A pratfall is a fall onto your bottom. (mainly AM) N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

bloomer, blooper, bobble, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, breakdown, collapse, comedown, crash, cropper, culbute, deflation, dive, downfall, dumb trick, fall, flop, fool mistake, foozle, forced landing, foul-up, goof, header, howler, louse-up, muck-up, nose dive, plunge, screamer, screw-up, smash, spill, sprawl, stumble, tailspin, trip, tumble