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Blip   /blɪp/   Listen
Blip

noun
1.
A sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption.  "You can't react to the day-to-day blips" , "Renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales"
2.
A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface.  Synonyms: pip, radar target.





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"Blip" Quotes from Famous Books



... it comes to, nacheral. Spirit-rappin's! Somethin' fierce! My kitchen window is on the air-shaft. So's his. Many's the time in the still evenin's I've heard the rap-rap-rappin' on his window an' on the wall, but mostly on the window. Blip! out of the dark. It'd make you just hop! And him sittin' quiet and peaceful in the front room all the time. Yep; my little girl seen him there while I ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... watched out of a direct-vision port, giving occasional glances to the screens. There were flecks of light from innumerable stars. Then the shining cloud-bank of the gas-giant planet went black. Screens showed all of the fleet—each blip with a nimbus about it which identified it as a friend, not a foe. There was the blip of the leading ship, the "point" of the formation. There were the flanking ships and all the martial array ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins


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