bloop·er (bl  p r)n. 1. Informal A clumsy mistake, especially one made in public; a faux pas. 2. Baseball a. A weakly hit ball that carries just beyond the infield. b. A high pitch that is lobbed to the batter. [From bloop, a high-pitched howl on the radio caused by interference (of imitative origin), and imitative of the sound made by hitting a ball weakly.] |
blooper [ˈbluːpə]
n
Informal chiefly US and Canadian a blunder; bloomer; stupid mistake
[from bloop (imitative of an embarrassing sound) + -er1]
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| Noun | 1. |  blooper - an embarrassing mistake error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up spectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) howler - a glaring blunder clanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger" |
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