blip
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blip
- /blɪp/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic.
noun blips
- A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen. When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again.
- A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated. Blip..Blip..Blip..Blip / There was that annoying noise again. Anger entered my subconscious as the dream came to an abrupt end.
- A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal. There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment.
- An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework. When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips.
verb blips · blipping · blipped
- To make a short beep sound. The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through.
- To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion. 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator.
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Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).
[…] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape.
Similar: bleep
- To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: radar target, piece, end, accident, bout, blinky, blipvert, pindot, pinprick, pixel, microdot, microclip, chirp, nanoblinker, micropulse, microsound
Translations
Talk about this word "blip." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/blip. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. blip. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/blip "blip." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/blip.Cite this
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title = {blip},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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