biffed

Example Sentences

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The Ratio, as Roth coined it, meant someone had biffed their tweet badly enough to generate a solid Major League Baseball stat line.

From Slate • May 7, 2023

The event closed with the more appropriate “God Bless America” and “America the Beautiful,” but the keyboardist biffed the intro to the first and the singer strangled the final note of the second.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2020

By the middle of the tournament she had beaten a Grand Slam champion, Sam Stosur, and in the quarter-finals she biffed a player who had once been world number one, Caroline Wozniacki.

From Reuters • May 23, 2019

Usually, it’s pilot error, as with the guy in Colorado who got biffed off his snowmobile by an avalanche that he caused.

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 13, 2014

With which words he biffed off; and I, having given him a minute or two to get out of the way, rose and made for the drawing-room.

From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)