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blaps

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of beetles, generally referred to the family Tenebrionidæ, but by some taken as the type of a family Blapsidæ.

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Examples

  • Hi Gareth, good on you for spotting my unintended "blaps" ... and I take this one on the windshield.

    Muti 2009

  • The three-color screens light up certain areas as needed, so you can see that soccer ball blip toward you three times before it blaps into the goal.

    My favorite knock-off game systems 2009

  • Could it be any more clear, if you compare that latest Al Gore speech to the most recent blurts and blaps from the semi-coherent fellow who currently occupies the presidency?

    Mary Lyon: The Benediction of Big Al 2008

  • Could it be any more clear, if you compare that latest Al Gore speech to the most recent blurts and blaps from the semi-coherent fellow who currently occupies the presidency?

    The Benediction of Big Al 2008

  • Could it be any more clear, if you compare that latest Al Gore speech to the most recent blurts and blaps from the semi-coherent fellow who currently occupies the presidency?

    The Benediction of Big Al 2008

  • The computer is brings you Pong like it brings you a warm carafe of hot chocolate; just you and it, swiping away at each other with blips and blaps.

    3/31/03 Chapel Hill, NC We 2003

  • The thought of transmitting actual blips and blaps over a piece of wire hanging off my roof filled me with satisfaction, and offered precious nanoseconds of respite from my dreary existence behind the 7-foot diesel-covered snowbanks of Eastern Iowa.

    MMIV 2003

  • The computer is brings you Pong like it brings you a warm carafe of hot chocolate; just you and it, swiping away at each other with blips and blaps.

    3/2/03 Columbia County, NY The thing 2003

  • The thought of transmitting actual blips and blaps over a piece of wire hanging off my roof filled me with satisfaction, and offered precious nanoseconds of respite from my dreary existence behind the 7-foot diesel-covered snowbanks of Eastern Iowa.

    dit-dit dit-dah dah-dit 2003

  • Plus, Tessa hated Norah's guitarist, who was a sort of annoying jazz minimalist taken to little arty bleeps and blaps when the mood hit him.

    6/7/02 Despite my lengthy, lugubriously-explained 2002

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