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Exclamation of love, repeated with afterthought (4)

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oops

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'exclamation of love repeated with afterthought' is the definition.
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'love repeated with afterthought' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'repeated' indicates the doubling of some letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'afterthought' becomes 'ps' (as in a PS in a letter).
'o' doubled is 'oo'.
'oo'+'ps'='OOPS'

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(Other definitions for oops that I've seen before include "Harem" , "Apologetic exclamation" , "Something's been spilt!" , "I'm sorry" , "My bad" .)

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