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BOO-BOO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boo-boo mean? 

BOO-BOO (noun)
  The noun BOO-BOO has 1 sense:

1. an embarrassing mistakeplay

  Familiarity information: BOO-BOO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOO-BOO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An embarrassing mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall

Hypernyms ("boo-boo" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boo-boo"):

bobble (the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball)

snafu (an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up)

spectacle (a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase 'make a spectacle of' yourself)

bull (a serious and ludicrous blunder)

fumble; muff ((sports) dropping the ball)

fluff (a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines))

faux pas; gaffe; gaucherie; slip; solecism (a socially awkward or tactless act)

howler (a glaring blunder)

clanger (a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate)

misstep; stumble; trip; trip-up (an unintentional but embarrassing blunder)


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