Originally refers to high-intensity short-length commercials in the 80s scifi television show "Max Headroom".

Conversationally it has come to mean any advertisement or otherwise popular (sub-)cultural touch point (eg. viral video) that is on the order of seconds in length.
Have you seen that Jessica Alba nipslip blipvert on youtube yet?
by Burton MacKenZie September 22, 2007
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