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blooper
[ bloo-per ]
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.
- 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 []. a pitched ball that travels in a high arc before deceptively dropping into the strike zone.
blooper
/ ˈbluːpə /
noun
- informal.a blunder; bloomer; stupid mistake
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Example Sentences
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.
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