Awkward American trick's ending skating manoeuvre (5)

I believe the answer is:

klutz

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'awkward american' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'trick's ending skating manoeuvre' is the wordplay.
'ending' says to take the final letters (the ending of the word).
'skating manoeuvre' becomes 'lutz' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The final letter of 'trick' is 'k'.
'k'+'lutz'='KLUTZ'

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(Another definition for klutz that I've seen is " Idiot".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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