Bloomsburg
a city in E central Pennsylvania.
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a residential and academic district in London, N of the Thames and Charing Cross. Artists, writers, and students living there have given it a reputation as an intellectual center. of or relating to a group of artists and writers who flourished in the early decades of the 20th century and were associated with the Bloomsbury […]
- Bloomsbury-group
noun a group of writers, artists, and intellectuals living and working in and around Bloomsbury in London from about 1907 to 1930. Influenced by the philosophy of G. E. Moore, they included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and John Maynard Keynes Contemporary Examples […]
- Bloomsday
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- Bloop
to ruin; botch: to bloop an easy catch. to hit a blooper in baseball. a clumsy mistake. blooper (def 3). Historical Examples Everyday Adventures Samuel Scoville n. To hit a ball relatively weakly and slowly: He blooped a lob over her head (1940s+ Baseball) To launch and land a long, curving blow: Turner blooped a […]
- Blooper
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. […]