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say it: blip
blip is a noun meaning "a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption". It is pronounced /ˈblɪp/ — blip. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption
“the market had one bad blip today”
“you can't react to the day-to-day blips”
“renewed jitters in the wake of a blip in retail sales”
a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blip come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.