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

Jonah Heim made it 4-2 on a bloop single — his first hit with the Braves.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

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

Mookie Betts continued his comeback from a season marred by position changes and a broken hand with an RBI bloop single in the third and a diving catch in the fourth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2024

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

Related Words

• blooper
• looper
• pop-up