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noun

plural of boob, British
as in mistakes
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy made an embarrassing boob on a chat show that had all of London laughing

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boobs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of boob, British
as in fumbles
to make a mistake it was an important speech, and the prime minister knew that he could not afford to boob on it

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Recent Examples of boobs
Noun
Everybody there is blonde, big boobs. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 Her legs weren't as shapely; her knees were chubby; her thighs too thick; her boobs not large enough. — Staff Author, InStyle, 18 June 2026 Not unless your attempt at a homemade cake ends up looking like boobs. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026 Finding the best bras for small boobs isn’t always as simple as grabbing the smallest size on the rack. — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 1 June 2026 Noem’s husband’s balloon boobs mentioned but not depicted, alas. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 May 2026 Margaret left and came back in a new bra, the straps of which could be hooked together into an X across her back to draw her boobs toward the center of her chest. — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026 In the film, the villain is not the Harvard nerds who initially shun Elle, but the ex-boyfriend who never saw her as anything more than a cardboard cutout of a girl with blonde hair and big boobs. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Their easy, hedonic seductiveness emerges, too, via Yuskavage’s lush, rounded, fleshy brushstrokes (a different sort of stroke material, for the patriarchy or for anyone else), which render everything from boobs to bellies to nipples smooth and swollen, like a succulent fruit fixing to burst. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boobs
  1. mistakes
  2. fumbles
  3. errors
  4. trips
  5. blunders
  6. stumbles
Noun
  • Acknowledging and even criticizing our mistakes of the past doesn’t cheapen one’s love for the United States.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • You are allowed to make three mistakes but fail a fourth time and the game ends with the answers being revealed.
    — Will Jeanes, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of mistakes
Verb
  • Tensions between the galley and the interior continue to escalate over lunch service, when a radio mishap fumbles the order in which the food should go out.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 May 2026
  • The movie fumbles the chance to do something arresting with this seminal period in art.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026
Definition of fumbles
Noun
  • The measurements auto-populate the quote, eliminating the transcription errors and ruler mistakes that have plagued the industry for decades.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Without an operator, the consequences of errors are much greater.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 July 2026
Definition of errors
Verb
  • Early on in the clip, Jake Johnson’s former tennis star Dusty Boyd trips over the net and injures his wrist in a bad way.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 23 June 2026
  • Longer trips sail to Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026
Definition of trips
Noun
  • Sometimes this was committed to good, such as the Marshall Plan and the Peace Corps, and sometimes to ill, as in a series of military blunders meant to quash godless Communism.
    — Jim Rasenberger, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • Colorado's rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2026
Definition of blunders
Verb
  • In it, the man stumbles around, blinded by the sun, surrounded by insensible tourists.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • The conversation stumbles on for a few moments, but Crook can’t find the words.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
Definition of stumbles

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“Boobs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boobs. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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