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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The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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