clanger
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noun \ˈklaŋ-ər\Definition of CLANGER
British : a conspicuous blunder —often used in the phrase drop a clanger
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- They lost the game after a defensive clanger.
- <a newsreader who memorably dropped a clanger when she referred to Robert Burns as an English poet>
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1948
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