bloop

US: /blup/ ,(blo̅o̅p)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

bloop /blup/   v. [~ + object]

1. Informal Terms [Baseball.] to hit (a pitched ball) as a blooper:
   blooped a single to left.

n. [countable]

2. Informal Terms blooper (def. 2).

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

bloop  (blo̅o̅p), [Informal.]
v.t. 

1. Informal Terms to ruin;
   botch:
   to bloop an easy catch.
2. Informal Terms to hit a blooper in baseball.

n. 

3. Informal Terms, Sport a clumsy mistake.
4. Informal Terms blooper (def. 3).

• 1925–30; earlier, a high-pitched sound produced by interference in a radio signal; expressive coinage