Usually means: Minor injury, often needing bandage.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word boo-boo:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. boo-boo: Merriam-Webster
  2. boo-boo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boo-boo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boo-boo, boo-boo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boo-boo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boo-Boo, Boo-boo, boo-boo: Wordnik
  7. boo-boo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boo-boo: Wiktionary
  9. boo-boo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boo-boo: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. boo-boo: Dictionary.com
  12. boo-boo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. boo-boo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. boo-boo: Rhymezone
  15. boo-boo: FreeDictionary.org
  16. boo-boo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. boo-boo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. boo-boo: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boo-boo: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo, boo-boo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. boo-boo: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See boo-boos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, colloquial, often childish) A mistake or error.
noun:  (countable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
noun:  (uncountable, colloquial, childish, by or to young children) Feces.
verb:  (colloquial, childish) To make a mistake.
verb:  (colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate.

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