Because these words are frequently clustered together in dictionary metadata, searching for them often leads to technical or linguistic articles about word associations, such as studies on .
: Lists "foul-up" and "flub" as top synonyms for an act of wrongdoing or an embarrassing mistake.
: Uses these strings of words to provide comprehensive definitions for slang or informal terms for failure.
: Often groups these terms (blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub) to define various types of errors.
Building a Chinese-English wordnet for translingual applications
These terms often appear together in entries for words like "blunder," or "botch" within resources such as: