bloop

English

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Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluːp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːp

Verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

1. (onomatopoeia, especially of a fish) To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
   • 2020, Alex K. Bishop, “The Man, a Bench in the Park”, in Nothing Important: Allegorical poems in the pursuit of meaning‎^[1], Altona, Manitoba: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13:

     The ducks quack,
     The birds chirp,
     The fish bloop.

2. (baseball) To make a hit just beyond the infield.
3. (informal) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
4. (television, transitive) To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
   • 1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96:

     Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.

Derived terms

• blooper
• unblooped
• unblooped

 

Noun

bloop (plural bloops)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.
   • 2018 August 21, Nicola Harvey, Mindful Little Yogis: Self-Regulation Tools to Empower Kids with Special Needs to Breathe and Relax‎^[2], London: Singing Dragon, →ISBN, page 51:

     Slowly exhale using short, quick bursts through the mouth, making 'bloop' sounds to mimic a fish each time.

2. (onomatopoeia) The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.
   • 2021 March 30, Elizabeth Penney, Bodies and Bows‎^[3], New York City: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     A loud bloop bloop from the fish tank made me jump, the three-year-old Reader’s Digest almost slipping from my grip.

   • 2021 July 6, Susie Finkbeiner, The Nature of Small Birds: A Novel‎^[4], Grand Rapids, Michigan: Revell, page 107:

     Still, it’s a good place to stand and try to catch sight of a heron or to be quiet to hear the bloop, bloop of fish surfacing to eat a water bug.

3. (informal) A low-pitched beeping sound.

   The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.

   • 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:

     A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.

4. (slang, baseball) Synonym of blooper

Derived terms

• bloopery
• bloopy