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  • noun Plural form of whoopsie.
  • noun Plural form of whoopsy.

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Examples

  • The IRS regularly overlooks "whoopsies" (that are as much as I make in a year) for rich people, so that doesn't make it any more honest.

    The Details on Geithner's Household Help & Taxes Problems 2009

  • Two whoopsies from last week: We were so blindsided by the absurdity of California congressional candidate Dan Adler's "Koreans and Jews should stick together" campaign ad that we accidentally called him "Ben" -- the Newsweek editor who recently took a buyout.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Government Going After Mortgage Giants Eliot Nelson 2011

  • So check back on Monday for some of the best whoopsies to ever land a guy on the couch.

    Cryptic Cross Words 2010

  • But even at that, this might be one of the most bizarre showbiz weapon whoopsies I've ever seen.

    Knife Regulation Dave Hurteau 2008

  • So check back on Monday for some of the best whoopsies to ever land a guy on the couch.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Once an author's got the work to the nearly-ready point, and the editor concurs it's time, the manuscript gets sent to the copy-editor, who goes through it with the proverbial finetooth comb for the whoopsies both large and small that almost always have slipped through the cracks of writing and rewriting.

    Copy-editing karenmiller 2007

  • July 15, 2009 at 9:20 am whoopsies – take da xtra middlol “http” out of da linkies for da cat and kitteh.

    Foreign Exchange Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • They are claiming it was all a big computer error, but that's just too many whoopsies for one administration and I'd say they used up that dog-ate-my-homework excuse on the 10 million lost emails relating to the AG firing scandal.

    Arrogance Without End Ellen Beth Gill 2008

  • CBC said it would only renew the license if the composer dropped the lawsuit, probably under the impression that no one else would license the song… whoopsies!

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Hockey Night in Canada theme saved…by CTV 2008

  • And that's just one of two whoopsies in this post.

    Greater Manchester Future: Turn Out Just Over 30% So Far 2008

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