Blooper

/ˈbluː.pə/

Synonyms for "blooper" (64 found)

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Closest matches (13)

bloomerblunderbobblebonehead playbonerboo booboo-booboob stunt

Strong matches (19)

Related words (32)

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bloop doublebloop singleblunderclipfaux pasgaffegag

Collocations

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baseball blooperblooper clipblooper reelfilm blooperson screen bloopervideo bloopers

Inflections

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Sample sentences

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Why do my readers and informants so delight in bloopers and boo-boos, fluffs and flubs, and goofs and gaffes? […] The humor in bloopers lies, in part, in the listener's awareness of the speaker's vulnerability. It is the very artlessness of linguistic lapses that makes them so endearing and makes us feel superior.

Source: wiktionary

This chapter describes the most common responsiveness bloopers and explains why developers commit them. It is organized differently from the other bloopers chapters of this book because responsiveness bloopers are all closely related to one another; they are all really variations on the same underlying blooper, with the same underlying reasons and solutions.

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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.

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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.

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