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blep

/blɛp/

blep verb: to extend the tongue beyond the lips, seemingly for no reason, without opening the mouth fully.

blep: to extend the tongue beyond the lips, seemingly for no reason, without opening the mouth fully
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Verb

blep (third-person singular simple present bleps, present participle blepping, simple past and past participle blepped)

  1. (Internet) To extend the tongue beyond the lips, seemingly for no reason, without opening the mouth fully.
    • You know what blepping is, right? It’s when an animal’s tongue casually pokes out of their mouth and stays there. It’s very cute, but quite odd.2018 March 17, Ellen Scott, “Why cats leave their tongues hanging out”, in The Metro
    • Animal experts aren’t entirely sure why pets blep, but in cats it may have something to do with the Flehmen response, in which they use their tongues to “smell” the air.2018 May 24, Michele Debczak, “Sploot 101: 12 Animal Slang Words Every Pet Parent Should Know”, in Mental Floss

Noun

blep (plural bleps)

  1. (Internet) The act of extending the tongue beyond the lips without opening the mouth fully.
    • We found out why cats do this and collated some of our favorite blep moments.2015, "Digital Mews", The Cat Magazine, Winter 2015, page 9
    • The social media site is a sprawling series of discussion boards, ranging from deep debates on sociological theory to pictures of cats with their tongues half out (a “blep”).2016, Jeremy Moule, "Reddit co-founder: You've got to suck to succeed," CITY Newspaper, 19 October 2016 - 25 October 2016, page 5

Examples of blep in a sentence

  • Animals can’t speak up to protect their own kind, but they can blep.2019 October 12, Andrew Fortin-Caldera, “LA Zoo Urges Support for Endangered Species with Cute Animal Pics”, in NBC Los Angeles:
  • Us hoomans chase our heckin floofers, iPhones in hand, snapping pics of their snoots and bleps to share with frens, posting with captions about the goodest boy in the world.2019 December, Stephanie Wilson, “Woo-Woo Woofers”, in Sensi Magazine, page 37:

Forms of blep

Verb
third-person singular presentbleps
present participleblepping
past participleblepped
pastblepped
Noun
pluralbleps

Origin of blep

Imitative.

Questions about blep

What does blep mean?
Blep means to extend the tongue beyond the lips, seemingly for no reason, without opening the mouth fully.
How do you use blep in a sentence?
Animals can’t speak up to protect their own kind, but they can blep.
What part of speech is blep?
Blep can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce blep?
Blep is pronounced /blɛp/.
What is the past tense of blep?
The past tense of blep is blepped.

Words near blep in the dictionary

  1. bleocin
  2. bleomycin
  3. bleomycine
  4. bleomycines
  5. bleomycins
  6. blep
  7. bleph
  8. blephara
  9. blepharadenitis
  10. blepharal
  11. blepharectomies

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