bloop

bloop
/bloohp/, Informal.
v.t.
1. to ruin; botch: to bloop an easy catch.
2. to hit a blooper in baseball.
n.
3. a clumsy mistake.
4. blooper (def. 3).
[1925-30; earlier, a high-pitched sound produced by interference in a radio signal; expressive coinage]

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