As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
beep, bleep
(noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
bleep
(verb) emit a single short high-pitched signal; “The computer bleeped away”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Onomatopoeic
bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)
A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
(euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
(music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
bleep (third-person singular simple present bleeps, present participle bleeping, simple past and past participle bleeped)
(intransitive) To emit one or more bleeps.
(transitive) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
Synonym: blip
• plebe
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.