blooper
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.
Radio. a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers.
Baseball.
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.
Also blooper ball [bloo-per bawl] /ˈblu pər ˌbɔl/ . a pitched ball that travels in a high arc before deceptively dropping into the strike zone.
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How to use blooper in a sentence
After a game and a half of utter futility with runners on, Taylor hit a 77-mph blooper to short center that dropped in as two runs scored.
Eddie Rosario is the hero this time as the Braves walk off the Dodgers again in NLCS Game 2 | Chelsea Janes | October 18, 2021 | Washington PostThe explainer video includes bloopers of Atlas falling flat on its face—not to mention on its head, stomach, and back, as it under-rotates for flips, crosses its feet while running, and miscalculates the distance it needs to cover on jumps.
Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Crush a New Parkour Course | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | August 18, 2021 | Singularity HubThat group text became the place we’d send each other some unbelievable Spikeball highlight we came across on Instagram, usually followed by a blooper of us made from the night before.
No one was harmed during the filming, but judging by the blooper reel at the end, there were a lot of respawns.
Viral Video of the Day: Terminator 2, Grand Theft Auto V Style | Alex Chancey | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the little blooper that resulted made Fallon seem more ingratiating than ever.
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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.
British Dictionary definitions for blooper
/ (ˈbluːpə) /
informal, mainly US and Canadian a blunder; bloomer; stupid mistake
Origin of blooper
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