blip

¹blip

noun \ˈblip\

Definition of BLIP

1

: a trace on a display screen (as an oscilloscope); especially : a spot on a radar screen

2

: a short crisp sound

3

: an interruption of the sound received in a radio or television program or occurring in a recording as a result of blipping

4

: a transient sharp movement up or down (as of a quantity commonly shown on a graph)

5

: something relatively small or inconsequential within a larger context <made only a blip on the political scene>

Examples of BLIP

1. The approaching ship appeared as a blip on the screen.
2. the blips, buzzes, and bleeps of a video game
3. The company's financial problems were just a temporary blip.

Origin of BLIP

imitative

First Known Use: 1945

Rhymes with BLIP

chip, clip, dip, drip, flip, grip, grippe, gyp, hip, kip, lip, nip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, trip, whip, yip, zip

²blip

transitive verb

blipped blip·ping

Definition of BLIP

: to remove (recorded sound) from a recording so that there is an interruption of the sound in the reproduction <a censor blipped the swearwords>

First Known Use of BLIP

1968