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blips

n. (plural of blip English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: blip)

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BLIPS

BLIPS is an acronym for Bond Linked Issue Premium Structure, or Bond Linked Investment Premium Strategy. It is a type of tax shelter involving investors who take out bank loans that the government considers illegitimate. These loans are then shifted to partnerships to claim tax losses.

BLIPS are invalid in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Blips (TV series)

Blips is a Spanish-British children's television series from Ragdoll Productions and BRB Internacional, which first aired on CITV (on the ITV Network) in 2004 and returned for a second series in 2005. It starred Robin Stevens as Mr. Perfect and Patricia Routledge as the narrator. The 26 episodes were written by Alan Dapre & Robin Stevens. Since 2006, the show has been often repeated on the CITV channel. The Blips are animated characters in a live-action setting.

Music by Paddy Kingsland

Usage examples of "blips".

Eight blips moving toward them, intercept course, off the port quarter.

The durations between individual blips varied, indicating they were manually tapping out the signal.

The two positions were too far apart for the blips to have been the same object.

Beamspace, and the blips are the same shuttle flicking in and out of Beamspace.

An improved Beam drive that worked not only in a gravity well, but also in atmosphere, would explain the strange blips and mean that all three were the same shuttle.

Luke switched his tactical screen back to Talfaglio local and watched as, a minute later, the squadron appeared insystem and streaked toward the yellow shell of Yuuzhan Vong blips trapping the refugee fleet in orbit.

Edwards leaned over the scanner, checking the grids for blips of white light.

For a while, the three small blips continued to close on them, and he began to fear that they were going to take their chances with the destroyer.

There are so many false blips from wind and thermals and waves that it looks like a riot of light green.

For a few more anxious seconds, the blips continued to close, and were now almost certainly within sight of the trawler.