I. ˈblip noun
Etymology: imitative
Date: 1945
1. : a trace on a display screen (as an oscilloscope) ; especially : a spot on a radar screen
2. : a short crisp sound
3. : an interruption of the sound received in a radio or television program or occurring in a recording as a result of blipping
4. : a transient sharp movement up or down (as of a quantity commonly shown on a graph)
5. : something relatively small or inconsequential within a larger context
made only a blip on the political scene
II. transitive verb
( blipped ; blip·ping )
Date: 1968
: to remove (recorded sound) from a recording so that there is an interruption of the sound in the reproduction
a censor blipped the swearwords