(informal) A blunder, an error.
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 …
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(baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders.
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 …
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(film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident or mistake.
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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