bloop
Americannoun
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a clumsy mistake.
The directions look easy, but I still made one bloop after another.
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a howling sound or high-pitched hum, especially a signal of interference generated through a radio set.
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Baseball. blooper (often used attributively).
That was a perfect bloop single—hit right “where they ain’t!”
verb (used with object)
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to ruin; botch.
They blooped another sales opportunity by pretending to know more about the product than they actually do.
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to make (a howling sound or high-pitched hum), especially as generated through a radio set.
The noises they blooped over the radio were some seriously creepy signals.
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Baseball. to hit a blooper.
He blooped that one into shallow right for a base hit.
Etymology
Origin of bloop
First recorded in 1925–30; originally in reference to a high-pitched sound produced by interference in a radio signal; of expressive origin
Example Sentences
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But Jack Dreyer managed to get two outs with the bases loaded and Blake Treinen finished the game by giving up just a bloop single in the ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
While the left-hander stranded a runner at second base he inherited in the eighth, three ninth-inning singles from the Brewers tied the score, culminating with a broken-bat, bloop single from Vaughn that made it 2-2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
Yamamoto’s leash finally ran out on pitch 41, when Andruw Monasterio lobbed a bloop RBI single down the right-field line in the next at-bat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
Granada Hills has outscored its first two playoff opponents 32-0 and only a bloop single in the second inning kept Moorman from back-to-back no-hitters.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025
I can only watch as the monkey falls about twenty feet into the river, the impact creating a modest bloop in the blue-brown water that sloshes beneath the dock.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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