blooper (noun)
1blooper — noun (C) AmE informal 1 an embarrassing mistake made in front of other people; bloomer BrE: I made a real blooper yesterday. 2 a ball in baseball that is high and slow and easy to catch or hit …
2blooper — noun Etymology: bloop (an unpleasant sound) Date: 1937 1. a. a fly ball hit barely beyond a baseball infield b. a high baseball pitch lobbed to the batter 2. an embarrassing public blunder …
3blooper — noun a) An error. b) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders. Syn: blunder, boo boo, faux pas, fluff, gaffe …
4blooper — noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. 1》 an embarrassing error. 2》 Baseball a fly ball hit just beyond the infield. ↘a ball thrown high by the pitcher …
5blooper — UK [ˈbluːpə(r)] / US [ˈblupər] noun [countable] Word forms blooper : singular blooper plural bloopers mainly American informal a silly or embarrassing mistake …
6blooper — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. blunder, error. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. Sl. mistake, *goof, blunder, *boo boo, gaffe, *muff, slip, *boner, *screwup. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Informal. A stupid, clumsy mistake:… …
7blooper — bloop|er [ blupər ] noun count AMERICAN INFORMAL a silly or embarrassing mistake …
8blooper — /ˈblupə/ (say bloohpuh) noun 1. a slip of the tongue, especially of a broadcaster, resulting in a humorous or indecorous misreading. 2. a similar mishap in film and television production. 3. a sail, additional to the usual working sails, and used …
9bloop — noun Etymology: back formation from blooper Date: 1947 blooper 1a • bloop transitive verb …
10solecism — noun 1) a poem marred by solecisms Syn: (grammatical) mistake, error, blunder; informal howler, blooper 2) it would have been a solecism to answer Syn: faux pas, gaffe, impropriety, social indiscretion, infelicity, slip …
