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Definition: Blooper |
BlooperNoun1. An embarrassing mistake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A blooper usually refers to a faux pas made by an actor while filming a television show or movie. These bloopers, or out-takes as they are also called, are often the subject of television shows or are sometimes revealed during the closing title sequence of movies.Specific examples include: uncontrollable laughter, unanticipated incidents (i.e. a prop falling or breaking), forgotten lines, or deliberate sabotage of an actor's performance by a fellow actor (to evoke laughter).
The term blooper is sometimes used in the game of baseball to refer to a weakly hit ball that carries just beyond the infield, or a high pitch that is lobbed to the batter.
Blooper is also the nickname of the M-79 Grenade Launcher, a weapon used extensively by American infantry forces during the Vietnam War. The Blooper served as a close support weapon bridging the gap between hand thrown grenade range and mortar fire.
External link: Blooper history and specifications
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blooper."
Synonyms: BlooperSynonyms: bloomer (n), blunder (n), boner (n), boo-boo (n), botch (n), bungle (n), flub (n), foul-up (n), fuckup (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ABC 50th Anniversary Blooper Celebration (2003) Pardon My Blooper (1974) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blooper porn | 47 | blooper mpg | 3 |
blooper | 27 | blooper sports | 3 |
blooper clip | 16 | blooper funny video | 3 |
blooper video | 11 | blooper tech tv | 3 |
blooper sex | 10 | blooper picture sports | 2 |
blooper pic | 9 | blooper techtv | 2 |
blooper picture | 9 | blooper shepard smith | 2 |
blooper clip video | 8 | bikini blooper | 2 |
blooper movie | 6 | blooper file reel x | 2 |
blooper photo | 5 | blooper xxx | 2 |
blooper nude | 4 | adult blooper | 2 |
blooper mpeg | 4 | tv blooper | 2 |
blooper tit | 4 | blooper face | 2 |
blooper thong | 4 | blooper gymnastics | 2 |
blooper photo sports | 4 | avi blooper | 2 |
blooper clip funny | 3 | blooper sexy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "blooper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | خطأ مربك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грешка (blunder, boss, break, defect, demerit, dereliction, error, fault, inaccuracy, inexactitude, lapse, misdoing, misstep, mistake, muff, slip up, slipping, snafu). (various references) | |
Czech | kiks (howler). (various references) | |
French | big boy, gaffe (bloomer, blunder). (various references) | |
German | schnitzer (blunder, bobble, Boner, boob, booboo, carver, goof, howler, slip up, solecism). (various references) | |
Hungarian | baki (bloomer, boner, break, clinker, flub-up, howler, slip-up, trip), nyelvbotlás (a slip of the tongue, bloomer, break, lapse of the tongue, slip of the tongue, trip), gikszer (bloomer, false note, goose-note, miscue, trip), begerjedt vevőkészülék. (various references) | |
Italian | big boy (big boy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ooperblay.(various references) | |
Russian | глупая ошибка (boner), оговорка (clause, lapsus linguae, limitation, reservation, reserve, slip of the tongue). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | greška (bungle, error, fallacy, foult, goof, lapse, lapsus, miscarriage, mistake, slip up, slipup, trip, wrong). (various references) | |
Swedish | felsägning (slink of the tongue, slip of the tongue). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blooper": bloopers. (additional references) | |
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"Blooper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blipvert, bloofer, blooop, bloop, bloopy, blooser, blopper, booper, looper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blooper" (pronounced bluw"per) |
| 4 | -l uw" p er | looper. |
| 3 | -uw" p er | duper, Cooper, grouper, Hooper, Scooper, stupor, super, trooper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: bolero, looper. | |
-2 letters: bloop, loper, obole, orlop, poler, probe, prole, rebop, roble. | |
-3 letters: bole, bolo, boor, bore, broo, lobe, lobo, loop, lope, lore, oboe, obol, oleo, orle, pleb, pole, polo, pool, poor, pore, repo, robe, role, rope. | |
-4 letters: bel, boo, bop, bro, lob, loo, lop, obe, ole, ope, orb, ore, per, pol, pro, reb. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: bloopers, boltrope. | |
+2 letters: boltropes, potboiler, pureblood. | |
+3 letters: biopolymer, blastopore, nonproblem, portabello, portobello, potboilers, promotable, purebloods. | |
+4 letters: ailurophobe, biopolymers, blastopores, blastospore, bulletproof, hyperboloid, nonproblems, polysorbate, portabellos, portobellos, prebiologic. | |
+5 letters: ailurophobes, blastospores, hyperboloids, incorporable, polyembryony, polyribosome, polysorbates. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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