bloop

American  

[bloop] / blup /

noun

1. a clumsy mistake.

   The directions look easy, but I still made one bloop after another.

2. a howling sound or high-pitched hum, especially a signal of interference generated through a radio set.

3. Baseball. blooper (often used attributively).

   That was a perfect bloop single—hit right “where they ain’t!”

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verb (used with object)

1. to ruin; botch.

   They blooped another sales opportunity by pretending to know more about the product than they actually do.

2. 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.

3. 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

When my reps showed full range of motion, the system rewarded me with a satisfying “bloop.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I wanted to work for each “bloop.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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 Literature

I know he’s blaming himself for the current bumblings—“It starts with me”—but I don’t want to see him scrambling from my defense in a playoff game, flipping some bloop pass that ricochets off the back of a referee’s head and into the gentle manicured paws of Travis Kelce in the end zone.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Related Words

• blooper
• looper
• pop-up