biffed

Example Sentences

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Later, we would find out that because Russia’s Roza Galieva biffed her double layout on floor, the U.S. hadn’t needed Strug’s second vault at all to win gold.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2021

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

So long!' and biffed out, without apparently knowing Derek was on the earth.

From The Little Warrior by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)