1
: a trace on a display screen (such 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
blipped; blipping
: to remove (recorded sound) from a recording so that there is an interruption of the sound in the reproduction
a censor blipped the swear words
Examples of blip in a Sentence
Noun
The approaching ship appeared as a blip on the screen.
the blips, buzzes, and bleeps of a video game
The company's financial problems were just a temporary blip.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
The royalty payments from the NFLPA are a blip compared to what players make on the field.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 17 June 2025
Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
Luckily, Nan finds the correct disk just in time to save the crew from getting blipped from existence, and Walton gets the fatal-content-error screen that indicates the game has been deleted from the server entirely.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Scientists are unsure what to do because the current speeding-up may be a blip in a longer trend of Earth’s rotation slowing.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
The royalty payments from the NFLPA are a blip compared to what players make on the field.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 17 June 2025
Verb
Chen’s set, interweaved throughout several episodes, goes fine — it’s hit and miss (there are also probably some translation blips that disservice the wording).
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
Luckily, Nan finds the correct disk just in time to save the crew from getting blipped from existence, and Walton gets the fatal-content-error screen that indicates the game has been deleted from the server entirely.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Blip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blip. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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