Clanger

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British A blunder; a faux pas.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
  • n. A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
  • n. Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
  • n. The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
  • n. An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    boo-boo    fuckup    bloomer    foul-up    pratfall    blooper    boner    botch    flub    bungle   
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