Verb. To mess something up or miss a planned event or meeting because you weren’t watching the clock. Name for (soon to be former) Chicago Bears football coach Matt Eberflus.
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Get the Eberflus mug.Verb. When given an ideal situation and poised for success managing to fuck it all up over and over again in the most unlikely yet preventable ways possible while lacking any level of self awareness. "I only realized my eberflus when I finally got home. That young lady was inviting me over the whole time!"
Noun. See also "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" disambiguation: to eberflus is a "fail to win" scenario when all advantages and momentum are on your side. A Bill Buckner type of error but without the otherwise legendary career and more akin to not touching home.
Noun. See also "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" disambiguation: to eberflus is a "fail to win" scenario when all advantages and momentum are on your side. A Bill Buckner type of error but without the otherwise legendary career and more akin to not touching home.
We won our championship game but not because we were better but because the other team's eberflus by batting out of order.
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Verb: The act of repeatedly fumbling a sure success into failure in the most baffling and avoidable ways imaginable, often with zero self-awareness. "Man, I totally eberflused that interview—spilled my coffee, forgot my resume, and still asked about vacation days first."
*Noun*: A term for a spectacular blunder where victory was certain but escapes grasp; similar to a sports blunder like Buckner's error, yet without the redeeming career achievements. "That loss was a total eberflus—all they had to do was hang onto the lead, but they blew it like a Doc Rivers postseason."
*Disambiguation*: "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" captures the essence of an eberflus moment; a consistent pattern of failure in situations set up for triumph.
Verb: The act of repeatedly fumbling a sure success into failure in the most baffling and avoidable ways imaginable, often with zero self-awareness. "Man, I totally eberflused that interview—spilled my coffee, forgot my resume, and still asked about vacation days first."
*Noun*: A term for a spectacular blunder where victory was certain but escapes grasp; similar to a sports blunder like Buckner's error, yet without the redeeming career achievements. "That loss was a total eberflus—all they had to do was hang onto the lead, but they blew it like a Doc Rivers postseason."
*Disambiguation*: "Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" captures the essence of an eberflus moment; a consistent pattern of failure in situations set up for triumph.
"Man, I totally eberflused that interview—spilled my coffee, forgot my resume, and still asked about vacation days first."
"That loss was a total eberflus—all they had to do was hang onto the lead, but they blew it like a Doc Rivers postseason."
"That loss was a total eberflus—all they had to do was hang onto the lead, but they blew it like a Doc Rivers postseason."
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Verb - to blunder, to mess up
Word used frequently in Chicago but spreading globally.
Verb - to blunder, to mess up
Word used frequently in Chicago but spreading globally.
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"Emberfall" can also be used in a sentence to describe something really cool or necessary.
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