Blooper

Quick meaning: Blooper is a noun meaning (informal) A blunder, an error.

Meaning

(informal) A blunder, an error.

More Meanings

1. (baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
2. (film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident or mistake.
3. (nautical) A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
4. (US, dated) A radio which interferes with other radios, causing them to bloop (squeal loudly).
5. (US, military, slang) The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).

Example Sentences

The blooper, delivered with a shot-put motion, floated in an arc that reached twenty-five feet, then suddenly dropped across home plate in the strike zone.

Once the blooper is around the spinnaker, let out the blooper sheet completely (which collapses the blooper), race the blooper sheet forward and reset on the other side.

Again the blooper wafted up to the plate. Ted waited and waited and then let loose. The ball rose in a high trajectory and sailed deep into the bullpen for a homer. The fans roared. The slugger had killed the blooper.

With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?

Word Forms

• bloopers

Synonyms for blooper

Depending on context, synonyms include boo-boo, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blunder, flub, boo-boo, botch, bungle, foul-up.

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