blip out

English

Verb

blip out (third-person singular simple present blips out, present participle blipping out, simple past and past participle blipped out)

1. (transitive, informal) To eliminate; to skip over or ignore.
   • 1990, Defining the Frontier: A Policy Challenge: Hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Casper, Wyoming, July 23, 1990 (serial no. 101-25), volume 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 25:

     If we look, for example, at Laramie County, with a population density of 26.8 per square mile, if you blipped out Cheyenne, Laramie County would change significantly.

   • 1995, John Dunning, The Bookman's Wake: A Mystery with Cliff Janeway, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN:

     He listened but his mind heard only words and blipped out meanings.