Verb for thing bouncing in your hand before falling

Looking for a verb that describes the action that sometimes precedes a thing falling from your hands. It looks like juggling or bouncing, but I’m not sure if those words fit in the following context:

“The phone _____ in her hand, before falling to the ground.”


The phone bobbled in her hand, before falling to the ground.

bobble (v)

1: BOB
2: FUMBLE m-w

North American [with object] Mishandle (a ball) Lexico

To juggle or fumble (a batted or thrown baseball) momentarily, usually resulting in an error. dictionary.com

To drop or almost drop a ball that you are trying to catch or stop Cambridge


Edmund's hand scraped against a ring of keys, still dangling from the lock. He wrenched them out. They bobbled in his hand and fell somewhere to the unseen floor with an echoing clatter. Robert Evert; Riddle in Stone

I smirked and tossed another bear at him, which he bobbled in his hands, dropping his mobile then bashing his head on the tabletop when he bent to pick it up, and almost falling off his chair when he pulled back, overcompensating. Erik Schubach; Flotilla

It bobbled in his hand nearly dropping, but he was able to snatch it before it crashed to the floor. MJ Fletcher; The Cartographer's Compass

He didn't drop his sword but his grip on it weakened and it bobbled in his hand. Christopher Pike; Red Queen

A bobble is formed by adding several stiches onto an unsuspecting stitch, working them back and forth and...

Even the word bobble doesn't bode well. It means to make a mess of something, to mishandle it. When a horse makes a misstep before a race, it's called a bobble. Likewise, an athlete bobbles when fumbling the ball. To bobble is to lose one's grip, which is what many people think you've done when you start adding bobbles to everything. I certainly thought so. Clara Parkes; The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting