pratfall (redirected from pratfalls)

prat·fall  (prtfôl)

n.

1. A fall on the buttocks.

2. A humiliating error, failure, or defeat: "His characters not only survive their snarled problems and pratfalls but learn from their experiences" (Joyce Carol Oates).

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pratfall [ˈprætˌfɔːl]

n

US and Canadian slang a fall upon one's buttocks

[from C16 prat buttocks (of unknown origin) + fall]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pratfall - a fall onto your buttocks fall, tumble, spill - a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
	2.	pratfall - an embarrassing mistake               blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, bloomer error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up spectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ball fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie - a socially awkward or tactless act howler - a glaring blunder clanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger" misstep, trip-up, stumble, trip - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

Translations

pratfall [ˈprætfɔːl] N (esp US) → culada f, caída f de culo (fig) (= blunder) → metedura f de pata

pratfall [ˈprætfɔːl] n (mainly US) to take a pratfall (= make a mistake) → trébucher

pratfall

n (esp US inf) → Sturz auf den Hintern (inf); (fig) → Bauchlandung f (fig); to take a pratfall (also fig) → auf den Hintern fallen