Usually means: Mistake or fumble in sports.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. muff: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. muff, muff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. muff, muff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. muff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. muff: Vocabulary.com
  6. Muff, muff: Wordnik
  7. muff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Muff, muff: Wiktionary
  9. muff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. muff: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. muff: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Muff, muff: Dictionary.com
  13. muff (n.), muff (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. muff: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Muff (handwarmer), Muff, The Muff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Muff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. muff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. muff: Rhymezone
  19. Muff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. muff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Muff: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Muff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. muff: Free Dictionary
  24. muff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. muff: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muff (genitals), muff: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Muff (genitals), Muff (hair): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MUFF: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. muff: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. muff, muff, muff, muff, muff, muff, muff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. muff: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. M.U.F.F, The Muff: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. muff: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Muff: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
noun:  (by extension, vulgar, slang) A woman or girl.
noun:  (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
noun:  The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
noun:  A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
noun:  (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
noun:  (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
noun:  A bird, the whitethroat.
verb:  (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
verb:  To mishandle; to bungle.
noun:  (slang) A muffin.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Myfanwy
noun:  A village in County Donegal, Ireland
noun:  An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States

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