1. A fall onto your buttocks
   "The comedian's pratfall had the audience in stitches"
    
2. An embarrassing mistake
   "His public pratfall became the talk of the office";
   - blunder, blooper [N. Amer, informal], bloomer [informal], bungle, foul-up [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], botch, boner [N. Amer, informal], boo-boo [informal], boob [Brit, informal], goof [informal], blue [Austral, NZ, informal]

1. Make or have a pratfall
   "The comedian pratfalled on stage, eliciting laughter from the audience"

Derived forms: pratfalling, pratfalls

Type of: error, fall, fault, mistake, spill, tumble

Encyclopedia: Pratfall