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blipped

blipped is the simple past and past participle of blip.

Meaning of blip

Verb

blip (third-person singular simple present blips, present participle blipping, simple past and past participle blipped)

  1. (intransitive) To make a short beep sound.
    • The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through.
  2. (informal, intransitive) 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.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  3. (transitive) 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, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155
    Synonyms:
    bleep
  4. To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.

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Phrases with blipped

Questions about blipped

What is blipped the simple past and past participle of?
Blipped is the simple past and past participle of blip.

Words near blipped in the dictionary

  1. blinys
  2. blip
  3. blip driver
  4. blip drivers
  5. blip out
  6. blipped
  7. blipped out
  8. blipper
  9. blippers
  10. blippier
  11. blippiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blipped (page history and authors); blip (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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