blooper

Plural: bloopers

Noun

• A public mistake or blunder.
• an embarrassing mistake
• A blunder, an error.
• A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
• A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.
• A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
• A radio which interferes with other radios, causing them to bloop (squeal loudly).
• The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).

Examples

• Forgetting to challenge an invalid word was a major blooper in his Scrabble career.

Synonyms

bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, Texas leaguer, aberration, banjo hit, barbarism, blooper, break, clanger, cock-up, erroneity, error, fault, faux pas, flare, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, lapsus, mess-up, misstep, mistake, oopsy, screwup, slip, slip-up, slipup, solecism, stumble, thinko, wrength

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