A condition in which a person has trouble either catching, or maintaining possession of an item. Usually refers to a pigskin, football or the "rock" but can be applied to dropping Momma's fine china on Thanksgiving Day or dropping a condom behind the headboard during application prior to coitus.

Stems from the word "Fumble" in football, in which a player loses possession of the football. Almost always occurs during moments of acute stress specifically when the desired end-state of a situation is within the grasp of an individual but then victory slips through the fingers of the fostering individual resulting in disaster.

Fostering is not limited to sports:

1) Dude why did you just foster the christmas turkey on the floor? Now we gotta eat spam covered with brown sugar instead.

2)All he had to do was juke the Florida Safety and he would have had 6!!! But he lost his emotions and effing tossed the ball into the stands, fostering the game away.
Game over, Florida Tatters our windsock again...

Fostering by Cy Simon August 22, 2008

Fostering

A slightly less extreme version of the commonly found player or also known as a man whore Fostering involves marrying people on facebook in quick succession. Fosterers often talk to many girls via Facebook messages and present a vunerable/emotional side to which appeals to people such as jailbait. Fostering is often a result of people who wish to appear popular and a desperate cry for affection.

Ethan: Wow Matt has gone through 3 Facebook marriages in 2 weeks. He's really fostering lately isn't he.
Sam: Yeah I know, he's getting alot worse.
Ethan: Ah well, better let him get it out of his system.

Fostering by Sue P January 3, 2012

Fostering

Telling a lie.

There's no cheesecake here, he was Fostering to us again.

Fostering by apathetic hero January 1, 2011

Bananas fostering

When you get intoxicated and start to massage and finger your food in a restaurant.

Cory, I swear to god if you start bananas fostering your dessert again I’m leaving.

Bananas fostering by Beau Beezy January 12, 2018

fosterize

the act of breaking, butchering, or fucking something up that was perfectly fine for no reason other than personal satisfaction

Damn, you sure did fosterize that welcome mat Patrick!
Did you see the way he fosterized that car?

fosterize by Wiggly 1 March 20, 2013

Fosterisation

The slow, steady, but inevitable decline of a corporate IT infrastructure due to incompetent and technically illiterate management.

"Why can't I log on to my email this morning?"
"My guess is we've been Fosterised"
"what's Fosterisation?"
"How long have you got?"

Fosterisation by BigGayDave November 9, 2008

God Shot

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".

Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."

God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011

Word of the Day on September 18, 2026

city chicken

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.

Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?

city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006

Word of the Day on September 17, 2026

Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake

“Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”

Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026

Word of the Day on September 16, 2026