(n.) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
(n.) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) ☞ Jimmy Cowan of Aston Villa overpowering the great Steve Bloomer in 1897!
(2) "Derby County's idolising of Steve Bloomer takes some beating," writes Matt Lewis.
(3) This study was designed to test the concurrent validity of the revised Task-Oriented Assessment (TOA) component of the Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) (Bloomer & Williams, 1979) with Part 1 of the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) (Nihira, Foster, Shellhaas, & Leland, 1969, 1974) and to develop a means of interpretation for the numeric scores on the TOA.
(4) Reanalyses of Year 1 data based on these follow-up outcomes demonstrated that only late bloomers used more communicative gestures than did language-matched controls.
(5) Late bloomers also used more communicative gestures than did age-matched controls, suggesting that they (the late bloomers) were using gestures to compensate for their small oral expressive vocabulary.
(6) I'm a late bloomer: I like to come to things at my own tempo.
(7) Ibanez, in his third stint with the Mariners and old enough to remember what it was like to play in the Kingdome, Seattle's previous home , is a bit of a late bloomer.
(8) Phil Bloomer, Oxfam 's director of campaigns, was more blunt: "Every year we delay an estimated 150,000 people will have died and a further 1 million displaced as a result of climate change."
(9) Others were being used as evacuation centres, said Bloomer, making it important to find alternative spaces.
(10) "We cooked for the nuns, we washed their big bloomers, we cleaned their rooms.
(11) She spent £1,168 on champagne and flowers, mostly at the Auntie's Bloomers shop at the BBC Television Centre in west London, between 22 March 2004 and 26 November 2004.
(12) And now it has Bodvarsson, a rare Icelandic league late bloomer.
(13) One senior City fund manager said the Prudential was a strong enough name to find support for the cash call, its second in six years following the £1bn rights issue in 2004 that ultimately cost then-chief executive Jonathan Bloomer his job .
(14) Previous X-ray studies (2.8-A resolution) on the crystals of tobacco mosaic virus protein (TMVP) grown from solutions containing high salt have characterized the structure of the protein aggregate as a bilayered cylindrical disk formed by 34 identical subunits [Bloomer, A.C., Champness, J.N., Bricogne, G., Staden, R., & Klug, A.
(15) The Xenopus 5S RNA replication-expression model of Gottesfeld and Bloomer (Cell 28:781-791, 1982) and Wormington et al.
(16) Oxfam's campaigns and policy director, Phil Bloomer, said: "E.ON's plans to cancel building a new coal plant at Kingsnorth is a welcome reprieve for the millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change.
(17) A handful of investors are understood be considering whether to bypass the chairman, Sir David Clementi, who has been unflinching in his support for chief executive Jonathan Bloomer, and approach the senior non-executive, Rob Rowley, instead.
(18) Results showed that all 4 children who were truly delayed at follow-up had been delayed in language comprehension at the first visit, but the 6 late bloomers had been at the same level as their age-matched controls.
(19) It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!").
(20) Phil Bloomer is the executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre .
Blooper
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tony Abbott: top 10 bloopers of his prime ministership In February, Abbott pleaded with his colleagues for more time to turn around the government’s fortunes when he faced a leadership spill motion initiated by backbench MPs.
(2) At one point, he hosted shows on all three major TV networks, including The $20,000 Pyramid on ABC, Live Wednesday on CBS and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes on NBC.
(3) Matt Carpenter hit a sacrifice blooper to score Kozma, Jonny Gomes' throw to home plate evaded catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and fell to relief pitcher Craig Breslow.
(4) Dick Clark's TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes, various music awards shows and a range of TV and film productions helped make him one of the richest men in entertainment.
(5) His company churned out hits such as $25,000 Pyramid, TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, the American Music Awards and, within a decade, New Year's Rockin' Eve.
(6) A base hit, one of the blooper variety - it just finds the grass in center field but Andre Ethier will take it!
(7) It was a preposterous play, one that will feature in blooper reels for years to come .
(8) Photograph: PA Wire It's been a year in which – with riots, revelations of the full grotty extent of the phone-hacking mega-blooper, and the continuing failure of those most responsible for the economic crisis to eat their share of the blame cake – Britain's moral compass has been spinning frenziedly.
(9) Like Stewart, Youssef played humorous video clips of his targets, and then mercilessly ripped them apart for whatever blooper they had uttered.
(10) #alcs @LengelDavid October 14, 2013 FOX are taking a hit tonight - I think Nick is referring to FOX going out of their way to highlight a blooper from last night in which the ball girl nearly had her helmet knocked off by a bouncing baseball in foul ground.
(11) That's nearly 7% of your available life Watching every film on the BFI's list of The Greatest Films of All Time will take you 217 hours (with an extra half-hour if you want to watch the hilarious "blooper reel" at the end of Citizen Kane).
(12) In yesterday's game one, Tampa made a lot of mistakes, i ncluding an all-time blooper by rookie outfielder Wil Myers , and Boston capitalized on almost every single one on route to a 12-2 blowout victory.
(13) 1.02am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 3rd Pedroia hits a bat breaking blooper that gets caught, but Ells does make it to second and no chance in hell does Matheny want Ortiz to hit here.
(14) What surprised Gross were the inclusion of a few bloopers: "There are a couple of really funny outtakes.
(15) The camera follows him as he comes back to inspect the broken seat of the chair with a shrug, a light-hearted blooper reel ending to a video of a seriously committed breakdancer.
(16) Jackson hits a blooper that falls in, scoring Dirks.
(17) Oeps interview blooper hahaha Leaning and learning 5.
(18) "The theatre mode for example, was designed to capture highlights, but it has turned into a cottage industry of blooper films and other user-generated content that our fans have had a blast with.