Definition of blip

blip    

noun

• a short amount of time.

  Because of the financial meltdown, my savings were gone in a blip.

  • See more words with the same meaning: a period of time.

  Last edited on Mar 02 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.

• a cause for concern.

  It was just a minor blip on my road to success.

  • See more words with the same meaning: hard, confusing, difficult, a problem.

  Last edited on Sep 20 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 20 2012.

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Other terms relating to 'a period of time':
long run, the	Definitions include: the future.
for days	Definitions include: for a long time.
tick	Definitions include: a short amount of time.
stretch	Definitions include: a period of time.
piece	Definitions include: a graffiti mural.
jiffy	Definitions include: a short amount of time.
minute	Definitions include: a long period of time.
holding pattern	Definitions include: a period of waiting, during which little can be accomplished, until a particular external event occurs.
sec	Definitions include: "second."
days	Definitions include: a long time.
buck	Definitions include: unattractive.
mo	Definitions include: "moment".
trip	Definitions include: to take LSD.
face time	Definitions include: the potential of facilitating one's meeting of other people.
grip	Definitions include: a long time.
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Other terms relating to 'hard, confusing, difficult, a problem':
can of worms	Definitions include: something that has many difficult issues.
doozy	Definitions include: something especially bad.
kink	Definitions include: a small problem.
hit some bumps in the road	Definitions include: to encounter difficulties.
bear	Definitions include: a masculine homosexual male.
do (one's) head in	Definitions include: to greatly confuse a person.
put out fires	Definitions include: to deal with urgent problems (usually at work.)
hard-*ss	Definitions include: a stubborn person.
fight fires	Definitions include: to deal with urgent problems (usually at work.)
*ss out	Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
full on	Definitions include: fully; extraordinarily; powerfully.
SHTF	Definitions include: acronym for "shit hits the fan".
bump in the road	Definitions include: a hindrance in some quest or extended task.
unpossible	Definitions include: "impossible".
champagne problem	Definitions include: a problem that, in reality, demonstrates one's good fortune.
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d*ck out	Definitions include: Applies to men while playing golf. If you hit the ball and don't make it past the ladies tee this is called a dick out. At which point you are supposed to play with your pants unzipped for the rest of that hole.
wake up and smell the coffee	Definitions include: a command/invitation to accept reality.
13th step	Definitions include: To have sex with a fellow addict in a 12-step program. This is AA lingo.
frogger	Definitions include: to change lanes rapidly while driving in an attempt to get ahead of the traffic.
geek chic	Definitions include: fashion influenced by clothing worn by geeks and nerds.
track mark	Definitions include: sores on the skin near veins - a symptom of injecting drugs.
cut rope	Definitions include: to defecate.
Mira Lago	Definitions include: Miralago
whazup	Definitions include: spelling variant of "what's up".
go Rambo	Definitions include: a gaming term for going all out and not giving a shit about anything else but the objective referring to Rambo, Sylvester Stallone, the character in the Rambo movies

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