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Meanings of dropped balls in English

We have no meanings for "dropped balls" in our records yet.
Usage of dropped balls in English
1
Gone were the dropped balls, everything was clear and decisive.
Radio NZ
2
Throw those in curves more, and work in your dropped balls when you can.
Frank Merriwell's Reward
3
Those three dropped balls cost the Giants easy first-down conversions.
Reuters
4
The Commodores had plenty of dropped balls of their own.
Reuters
5
When she closed her eyes, she saw all the dropped balls, the blocked hits, the shanked passes.
Sushi for one?
6
The players are certainly human and screw up all the time: dropped balls, fumbles, bad passes, missed blocks, crummy tackling.
Wired
7
Perhaps even more than on their debut, cricketing metaphors and references abound: sticky wickets, stumps and (ahem) dropped balls.
The Guardian
8
From the moment dropped balls were revealed in the replays of tries at opening matches at Twickenham, the TMO had been a centre of attention.
The Guardian
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