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(colloquial) Acknowledging a mistake. quotations examples
Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game
2000, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub (lyrics and music), “Oops!… I Did It Again”, in Oops!… I Did It Again, performed by Britney Spears
plural oopses or oops
A minor mistake or unforseen difficulty. quotations examples
It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.
2011, Housetraining, page 14
Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.
2013, Bruce Tucker, Leadership at the Crossroads
Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?
2014, Al Rennie, Clearwater Oops!
My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.
2015, Dawn Klehr, If You Wrong Us
third-person singular simple present oopses, present participle oopsing, simple past and past participle oopsed
(intransitive, colloquial) To make a mistake; to blunder. examples