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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


Words linked to "Blip" :   radar target, shock, pip, blow, radar echo


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