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blooper

[ bloo-per ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Informal. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, as one spoken live over a radio or television broadcast or one recorded during the filming of a movie, television show, etc.:
At the end of each season, the cast gathers to watch all the hilarious bloopers that were edited out along the way.
Synonyms: goof, gaffe, slip, blunder, error
Radio. a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers.
Baseball.
1. Also called bloop, looper, Texas leaguer. a fly ball that carries just beyond the infield, where it is out of catching range for both the infielders and the outfielders, resulting in a hit for the batter.
2. Also blooper ball []. a pitched ball that travels in a high arc before deceptively dropping into the strike zone.

blooper

/ ˈbluːpə /

Origin of blooper¹

First recorded in 1925–30; bloop + -er ¹, originally in reference to a radio receiver that emits bloops

Origin of blooper¹

C20: from bloop (imitative of an embarrassing sound) + -er ¹

No one was harmed during the filming, but judging by the blooper reel at the end, there were a lot of respawns.

But the little blooper that resulted made Fallon seem more ingratiating than ever.

Palin-Tebow blooper and parody videos are as inextricable from YouTube as salmon is from Alaskan streams.

But rival Sharron Angle also ran an epically terrible campaign, one that comes with a sidesplitting blooper reel for the DVD.

The most media-saturated election in history amplified every campaign trail blooper– and there were plenty.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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