Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- Informal. an embarrassing mistake, as one spoken over the radio or TV.
- Radio. a receiving set that generates from its antenna radio-frequency signals that interfere with other nearby receivers.
- Also bloop. Baseball.
- Also called looper.a fly ball that carries just beyond the infield.
- a pitched ball with backspin, describing a high arc in flight.
noun
- informal, mainly US and Canadian a blunder; bloomer; stupid mistake
“blunder,” 1943, apparently first in theater, from American English baseball slang meaning “a fly ball in a high arc missed by the fielder” (1937) or else from the earlier sense “radio receiver that interferes with nearby sets” when a careless operator throws it into oscillation (1926), in which case it imitates the resulting sound.