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

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

A bloop single from Bryce Harper scored the Phillies’ first run.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2025

A bloop and a blast, as they say, and the Dodgers would have tied the game.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 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