blipping

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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