blooper

noun

Definition of bloopernext
as in pratfall

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Recent Examples of blooper The other three hits Ryan allowed were a leadoff blooper by Jeremy Peña and two infield singles. — CBS News, 21 May 2026 Hopefully, that read through will be released as an entire blooper reel. — Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 17 May 2026 The bunt was in play there, led to a couple of runs there with the Vargas blooper. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026 Various bloopers have plagued the Royals and Mets alike — blame players running into each other and dropping fly balls, poor baserunning and leaky bullpens. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for blooper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blooper
  1. pratfall
  2. blunder
  3. howler
  4. flub
  5. gaffe
  6. bloomer
  7. mistake
  8. miscue
Noun
  • The boat pratfall, the picture frame… That was a hard thing to shoot.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • And in fitting Tomlin style, Pittsburgh let a chance to wrap up the division slip away during a three-hour pratfall in the muck at Cleveland last weekend.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
Definition of pratfall
Noun
  • Nothing makes this part of the chase memorable or important enough to merit a flash-forward, which turns it into a deflating blunder in a series that can’t afford to slow down.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
  • And while that may sound like little more than a comic blunder, these slips offer one of the clearest windows into how language is assembled in the mind.
    — Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 14 July 2026
Definition of blunder
Noun
  • Many of the Round of 16 matches have been tight, and a defensive blunder or a goalkeeper howler could change the course of a game.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • With a goalkeeping howler and a red card, Marcelo Bielsa’s side self-imploded at the end of a bitterly disappointing tournament.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of howler
Noun
  • The lefty, who needed 37 pitches to get through the fourth due to Cabrera’s flub and three free passes, logged five innings, two runs (0 earned), four walks and six strikeouts over 96 pitches.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • But those are only the flubs that Jeopardy judges catch and acknowledge during tapings.
    — Louis Peitzman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026
Definition of flub
Noun
  • The gaffe enabled Thomas — who led off with a single — to score his second run.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026
  • The gaffe is the result of Microsoft, which oversees the signing of shims, failing to revoke the publicly available images once vulnerabilities were found in them.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026
Definition of gaffe
Noun
  • This upcoming bloom spotlights a plant nicknamed Odora, who last opened in 2024, and Odorysseus, a rookie public bloomer.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Zinnias Meet the colorful zinnia, a delightful, easy bloomer that isn’t high-maintenance.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 8 July 2026
Definition of bloomer
Noun
  • Avoiding these debt relief mistakes can help keep costs under control and improve your chances of a successful outcome.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • This was deliberate and not a fashion or ordered-the-wrong-size-on-Amazon mistake.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
Definition of mistake
Noun
  • The defensive miscues haven’t been cleaned up, the lineup is still failing to hit with runners in scoring position, and the starting pitching is still giving up early leads and struggling to go deep into games.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 July 2026
  • Lindor immediately heard boos upon making his miscue, but the loudest criticisms from the crowd at Citi Field were directed toward Semien.
    — Will Sammon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of miscue

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