BLIP

I. noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1945 a trace on a display screen (as an oscilloscope), a short crisp sound, an interruption of the sound received in a radio or television program or occurring in a recording as a result of ~ping, a transient sharp movement up or down (as of a quantity commonly shown on a graph), something relatively small or inconsequential within a larger context , II. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: 1968 to remove (recorded sound) from a recording so that there is an interruption of the sound in the reproduction