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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blip.

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Examples

  • Half an hour later, that famous catchphrase blipped up on CNN.

    Is This The New World Order? 2007

  • Oh thank goodness I no longer have to worry about all the kids getting their butts "blipped" off whilst keeping the "brand" out there.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • At a dozen stations ranged along the south coast, specialists were watching radar screens resembling small television sets and interpreting the lines of oscillation and dancing squiggles of light that "blipped" and faded as the scanners picked up objects in the skies.

    The HurricaneStory Gallico, Paul 1959

  • Listen to "blipped" songs as they come up, or skip to ones you like.

    PC World 2010

  • Nebraskan had "blipped on our screen several times in recent weeks."

    Tim Webster 2010

  • Had Prejean won the aforementioned competition, I feel pretty certain that none of these facts would have blipped across my radar screen.

    Stop Making Martyrs 2009

  • Deerhunter blipped onto the blogosphere with its glowering 2007 album "Cryptograms," and the Atlanta band has remained prolific ever since, expertly straddling the line between noisy guitars and warmer pop sensibilities.

    From Rap to the Rapture Andy Beta 2011

  • It's hard to imagine that as recently as 30 years ago, most wine snobs dismissed Napa vino as swill, and just a couple of decades ago Australia and Chile barely blipped on the wine connoisseur's radar.

    10 Off The Beaten Path Wine Regions (PHOTOS) Manal Khan 2010

  • Bachmann spoke at an Iowans for Tax Relief event over the weekend and she blipped my radar with this musing on the early settlers, who "had different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions":

    Michele Bachmann's 'absolutely amazing' view of history Jonathan Capehart 2011

  • Oil and gold blipped upward again last week after a hiatus that followed the end of the QE2 monetary stimulus.

    Obama's Perplexing Populism George Melloan 2011

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