bloop

The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.

Noun

  1. The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.
    • Slowly exhale using short, quick bursts through the mouth, making 'bloop' sounds to mimic a fish each time. - 2018 August 21, Nicola Harvey, Mindful Little Yogis: Self-Regulation Tools to Empower Kids with Special Needs...
  2. The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.
    • A loud bloop bloop from the fish tank made me jump, the three-year-old Reader’s Digest almost slipping from my grip. - 2021 March 30, Elizabeth Penney, Bodies and Bows, New York City: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 4:
    • 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. - 2021 July 6, Susie Finkbeiner, The Nature of Small Birds: A Novel,...
  3. A low-pitched beeping sound.
    • The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.
    • A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'. - 1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:
  4. Synonym of blooper.

    Synonyms: blooper

Origin

Imitative.

Forms

bloops

Derived

bloopery bloopy

Verb

  1. To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
    • The ducks quack, The birds chirp, The fish bloop. - 2020, Alex K. Bishop, “The Man, a Bench in the Park”, in Nothing Important: Allegorical poems in the pursuit of meaning, Altona, Manitoba: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13:
  2. To make a hit just beyond the infield.
  3. To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
  4. To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
    • Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers. - 1979, John Mercer, An Introduction to Cinematography, page 96:

Forms

bloops blooping blooped

Derived

blooper unblooped