0 a fall in which a person lands on their bottom, especially for a humorous effect in a play, film, etc.
Most of us get over the pratfalls of childhood.
He also tends to be the subject of pratfalls due to his clumsiness.
The physical actions on the stage included slapstick, pratfalls, loud noises, physical mishaps, collisions.
He was enough of a professional (and a trained acrobat) to complete the film, doing extreme pratfalls even while visibly impaired.
They were growing older, and could no longer perform pratfalls and physical comedy as they once had.
In that first decade, the number of publishing pratfalls was barely exceeded by the will to learn from a bumpy start and keep the paper in print.
An individual with high self-esteem will prefer the non-pratfall, high competence individual over the pratfall committing competent individual.
An incompetent individual that commits any pratfall (2,3) will have a decrease in liking, which increases with severity of blunder.
After a perceived incompetent individual commits a pratfall, the comparison between the observer and blunderer can cause mental discomfort, which may then results in lower likability ratings.
