blooper, BLOPER

The New Yorker

15小時 · 

Today's daily cartoon by Brendan Loper.

翻譯年糕

Vice president's web bloopers.

I adhere firmly to the blooper snooper's code, taking only what I find and contriving nothing.

blooper
n.

1. Informal. A clumsy mistake, especially one made in public; a faux pas.
2. Baseball.
   1. A weakly hit ball that carries just beyond the infield.
   2. A high pitch that is lobbed to the batter.

[From BLOOP, a high-pitched howl on the radio caused by interference (of imitative origin), and imitative of the sound made by hitting a ball weakly.]

n. - 引起雜音的收音機, 大挫折 n. - 大失敗, テキサスヒット

blooper

NOUN

North American 
informal 

• 1An embarrassing error.

  ‘he poked fun at his own tendency to utter bloopers’

  as modifier ‘blooper shows consisting of out-takes from films’
• 2Baseball 
  A weakly hit fly ball landing just beyond the reach of the infielders.

  ‘Hunter's the only guy to get a hit, a blooper over the shortstop's head’

Origin

1926 (originally US, denoting a radio which caused others to bloop, i.e. emit a loud howling noise): from imitative bloop + -er.

bloop
n.
A blooper.
tr.v., blooped, bloop·ing, bloops.
To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield.
adj.
Hit just beyond the infield.