blooper

noun

Informal. an embarrassing mistake, as one spoken over the radio or TV.

Radio. a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers.

Also, bloop. Baseball.

Also called looper. a fly ball that carries just beyond the infield.

a pitched ball with backspin, describing a high arc in flight.

Origin:
1925–30; bloop + -er¹, orig. in reference to a radio receiver that emits bloops

Synonyms
1. error, blunder, slip, gaffe, goof.

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blooper (ˈbluːpə)

—n
	informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) a blunder; bloomer; stupid mistake

[C20: from bloop (imitative of an embarrassing sound) + -er¹]

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Main Entry:	blooper
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	See banjo hit

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Word Origin & History

blooper

"blunder," 1947, from either Amer.Eng. baseball slang, "a fly ball missed by the fielder" (1937) or "radio receiver that interferes with nearby sets" (1926).

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blooper definition

[ˈblupɚ]

n.
an embarrassing broadcasting error that must be bleeped or blooped out of the program. : There is a record you can buy that lets you hear the famous bloopers of the past.
n.
an error. : That was a real blooper. Did you get fired?

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Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences

Then he threw the ball, a weak little blooper that plopped almost unnoticed on the turf.

Describes a blooper that misled scientists for over a century and the discovery of fossil dinosaur eggs in.

It's one of the rare films for which a blooper reel would be redundant.

It's never a blooper to take a stand for clean water, through your actions and through your words.

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