What's the difference between blooper and spanker?

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.

Spanker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
  • (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
  • (n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.
  • (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person.
  • (n.) A small coin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I was watching with my parents and a girlfriend in our small living room in Fife, a long way from the lifestyles of movers and shakers (and spankers) like Tynan.
  • (2) He seemed to bid farewell to the stage as a touring Prospero in The Tempest in 2003, but returned unexpectedly in 2010 as the military relic Adolphus Spanker in Nicholas Hytner's mellow National Theatre revival of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance , alongside Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale.