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Dropping The Ball Eg Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is ERROR which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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noun

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• inadvertent incorrectness

• a misconception resulting from incorrect information

• (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

• departure from what is ethically acceptable

• (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

• part of a statement that is not correct

29%6 Opposed to opening, dropping, opening, dropping?
verb

• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

• fail to win

• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

• miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

• allow to go out of sight or mind

• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

• fail to get or obtain

• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

• withdraw, as from reality

• be set at a disadvantage

28%9 Object of the game is to score points by caroming the cue ball off both the object ball and the opponent's cue ball
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New York Times20 May 2010 Across 40
New York Times11 Sep 1994 Across 103
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