Blooper

//ˈbluː.pə//

Synonyms for "blooper" (87 found)

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

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derived from

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has context

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related to

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Translations

33 translations across 12 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • NG noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • NG (ēnjī) noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)

Finnish

4 entries
  • kömmähdys noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • moka noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • pieleen mennyt otos noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • vinguttaja noun (radio which interferes with other radios)

French

2 entries
  • bêtisier noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • perle noun (blunder, error — see also error)

German

4 entries
  • Panne noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • Pannen noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • Patzer noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • Schnitzer noun (blunder, error — see also error)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • baki noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • baki noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • gikszer noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • malőr noun (blunder, error — see also error)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • dibuang sayang noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • klip khilaf noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)

Italian

2 entries
  • papera noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • strafalcione noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)

Japanese

3 entries
  • NG (NG) noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • NG (enujī) noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • 放送事故 noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)

Korean

3 entries
  • NG (NG) noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • NG (enji) noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • 방송사고 noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)

Russian

4 entries
  • киноляп noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • ляп noun (blunder, error — see also error)
  • неудачный дубль noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)
  • опло́шность noun (blunder, error — see also error)

Spanish

1 entries
  • toma falsa noun (filmed or videotaped outtake)

Swedish

1 entries
  • groda noun (blunder, error — see also error)

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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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