boo-boo
Example Sentences
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Widely ridiculed on social media for his lack of knowledge, Mr Harris apologised for what he described as an "awful boo-boo".
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2024
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 me, he was Kobe-Kobe, my boo-boo, my bay-boo.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2020
A mother is still the only one who can kiss a boo-boo and make it all well—explain that scientifically.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.