blip /blɪp/noun 4verb 4forms 3phrases 1 noun4 •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. — 1984 •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. — 2003 •A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated. •(Internet, historical) 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. — 2010 verb4 •To make a short beep sound.The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through. •To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin. •(informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.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. — 1977 •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. — 2003 formsblipped · blipping · blips Phrases with blip blip outTo eliminate; to skip over or ignore.
