blooper

[bloo-per] /ˈblu pər/

noun

Informal. an embarrassing mistake, as one spoken over the radio or TV.

Radio. a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers.

Also, bloop. Baseball.

Also called looper. a fly ball that carries just beyond the infield.
a pitched ball with backspin, describing a high arc in flight.

Origin

1925-30; bloop + -er¹, orig. in reference to a radio receiver that emits bloops

Synonyms

1. error, blunder, slip, gaffe, goof.

Examples from the web for blooper

Describes a blooper that misled scientists for over a century and the discovery of fossil dinosaur eggs in.
It's never a blooper to take a stand for clean water, through your actions and through your words.
So the unit produced a fake-blooper reel, full of blown lines and cuss words, all scripted.
Then he threw the ball, a weak little blooper that plopped almost unnoticed on the turf.
It's one of the rare films for which a blooper reel would be redundant.

British Dictionary definitions for blooper

blooper

/ˈbluːpə/

noun

(informal, mainly US & Canadian) a blunder; bloomer; stupid mistake

Word Origin

C20: from bloop (imitative of an embarrassing sound) + -er1

Contemporary definitions for blooper

noun

See banjo hit

Word Origin and History for blooper

"blunder," 1943, apparently first in theater, from American English baseball slang meaning "a fly ball in a high arc missed by the fielder" (1937) or else from the earlier sense "radio receiver that interferes with nearby sets" when a careless operator throws it into oscillation (1926), in which case it imitates the resulting sound.

Slang definitions & phrases for blooper

blooper

noun

A blow with the fist, esp a long, looping punch: So I could hang a blooper on your kisser
A high, looping pitch, throw, or hit: I poked an easy blooper over third (Baseball)
A blunder; boner, boo-boo: He may have felt he pulled a blooper