boo-boo
Example Sentences
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It might be your internet company’s fault, a boo-boo with your home equipment or interference from your neighbor’s Call of Duty game night.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
“Then everybody put a boo-boo on that. They said: ‘What are you doing, ratting on about that?’
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2020
But to this young widow he was her “Kobe-Kobe, my boo-boo, my bae-boo, my papi chulo,” she said to the stage-side celebrities and everyday fans in seats high above.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2020
The boo-boo in question was John Travolta's notorious introduction of singer Idina Menzel in 2014 as "the one and only Adele Dazeem".
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2020
My mother kissed the boo-boo as if it were a big deal, even though there was no mark.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.