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(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.

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Source Word

blip

IPA(Pronunciation)

/blɪp/

Verb

informal intransitive transitive

(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.

Japanese Meaning

急激に状態が変わる（例：急に点灯・消灯するなどの、オフとオン、暗と明の切り替わり）

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Sometimes the old hallway lights blip between dark and bright whenever someone walks by.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古い廊下の照明は、誰かが通るたびにぱっと点いたり消えたりすることがある。

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(intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.

And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway, just one more set of red and yellow lights streaking along amid a current of red and yellow lights that blipped, blipped, blipped through an unremarkable Sunday dusk.

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