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blipvert

noun

  1. A subliminal or nearly subliminal advertisement displayed for a very short time.

    The blipvert condenses 30 seconds of advertising to 3 seconds in order to prevent viewers from switching channels during an advertisement.

Where it comes from

Blend of blip + advert; coined in the film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985), in which they caused the nervous systems of certain viewers to overload.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry blipvert (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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