BLEEP

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


Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Noun

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.

Verb

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

Anagrams

• plebe

Source: Wiktionary



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