Define Drop The Ball Meaning

1. Make an error; miss an opportunity; fail.

2. To make a mistake, especially by doing something in a stupid or careless way.

3. To fail to keep working to reach a goal.

This expression comes from the game of FOOTBALL, where it's not a good thing to drop the ball when the ball is in play. It's mainly used based on failure and mistakes. So, if you want to tell someone how important it is to succeed in a particular activity, then this is a good expression to use.

Make an error; miss an opportunity; similar to pull a cootsie.

- This expression comes from sports where a player who fails to catch a ball is charged with an error.

To screw up a major opportunity, that possibly comes along only once in a blue moon.

When Randy Moss fucked The Patriots over by letting the ball slip from his fingers with less than a minute left in the 2008 Superbowl.

When you are supposed to handle or be responsible for something and you don't follow through.

Someone fucking something up because they're incompentent or weren't paying attention, thusly fucking themselves and possibly others over.

When talking to someone and you cant think of anything else to say to keep the conversation going

to try so hard at something, including but not exclusively physical activity, that it seriously hurts you.

means to man up and go for it. Get some pluck and smoke a joint, fuck a bitch, anything really.

when one says to a nice helpful person i dropped my balls