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botch (s) (noun), botches (pl)
1. Making embarrassing mistakes or "making messes" of things by incompetence or a lack of skills.
2. A clumsy or poor piece of work; a mess; a bungle; a blooper; a fiasco: "John Kerry made a complete botch of his attempt to attack President George Bush and his Iraqi policies."
3. A disorderly or confused combination; a conglomeration.
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botch (verb), botches; botched; botching
1. To make a mess of, to destroy, or to ruin by clumsiness.
2. To spoil by poor work; to bungle (often followed by up): "John Kerry botched up the joke and caused a national stir."
3. To do or to say in a bungling manner.
4. Etymology: before 1382, "to mend or patch", in the Wycliffe Bible; later "to spoil by unskillful work" from 1530.

To botch in professional wrestling refers to an attempt to do a scripted move that does not come out as it was originally planned because of a mistake, a miscalculation, or a slip-up.

Most wrestling botches are harmless although embarrassing; such as, when a wrestler simply botches a line or a cue, or falls before his opponent's planned move actually connects.

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botch up (verb), botches up; botched up; botching up
1. To ruin through clumsiness, either mentally or physically.
2. To make or to perform clumsily; to bungle.
3. To blunder, to stumble, or to flounder.
4. Putting one's foot in one's mouth.
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