(figurative) failures to handle something correctly or completely. An allusion to the Americangame of football in which a player dropping the ball can result in his team failing to score and the opposing team taking control of the football. At first they blame the pcs or the tech itself for their dropped balls.failures to handle something correctly or completely, especially blunders or mistakes at a criticalmoment. Also literal as in sports, to drop the ball in error. This is our inheriting the dropped balls of yesterday. -A Summary of Study (4 Aug. 64)