bloop
/bluːp/
bloop verb: to blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
Verb
bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)
- To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
- The ducks quack,
The birds chirp,
The fish bloop.2020, Alex K. Bishop, “The Man, a Bench in the Park”, in Nothing Important: Allegorical poems in the pursuit of meaning, Altona, Manitoba: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13
- The ducks quack,
- To make a hit just beyond the infield.
- To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
- To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
- Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96
Noun
bloop (plural bloops)
- The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.
- Slowly exhale using short, quick bursts through the mouth, making 'bloop' sounds to mimic a fish each time.2018 August 21, Nicola Harvey, Mindful Little Yogis: Self-Regulation Tools to Empower Kids with Special Needs to Breathe and Relax, London: Singing Dragon, →ISBN, page 51
- The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.
- A loud bloop bloop from the fish tank made me jump, the three-year-old Reader’s Digest almost slipping from my grip.2021 March 30, Elizabeth Penney, Bodies and Bows, New York City: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4
- Still, it’s a good place to stand and try to catch sight of a heron or to be quiet to hear the bloop, bloop of fish surfacing to eat a water bug.2021 July 6, Susie Finkbeiner, The Nature of Small Birds: A Novel, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Revell, page 107
- A low-pitched beeping sound.
- The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.
- A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39
- Synonym of blooper.
- Synonyms:
- blooper
Proper noun capitalized: Bloop
the Bloop
- An ultra-low frequency, high-amplitude underwater sound detected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); albeit rumored to be that of a sea monster, the administration concluded the sound was caused by a cryoseism.
Synonyms of bloop
Forms of bloop
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | bloops |
| present participle | blooping |
| past participle | blooped |
| past | blooped |
| Noun | |
| plural | bloops |
Origin of bloop
Imitative.
From bloop, named for its onomatopoeic qualities.
Words formed from bloop
Words that rhyme with bloop
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about bloop
- What does bloop mean?
- Bloop means to blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
- What part of speech is bloop?
- Bloop can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bloop?
- Bloop is pronounced /bluːp/.
- What is the past tense of bloop?
- The past tense of bloop is blooped.
Words near bloop in the dictionary
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