Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
- intransitive verb To emit a bleep or bleeps.
- intransitive verb To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning.
- transitive verb (Broadcasting) to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
brief high-pitched sound , as from someelectronic device . - noun euphemistic Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
- noun music, slang, uncountable A broad genre of
electronic music withgoth andindustrial influences, as opposed to traditionalgothic rock . - verb intransitive To
emit one or more bleeps. - verb transitive To
edit out inappropriate spoken language in abroadcast by replacingoffending words with bleeps.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb emit a single short high-pitched signal
- noun a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.
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You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.
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You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.
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You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.
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You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.
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You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.
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That might explain why on a recent weeknight more than three-quarters of the hit tracks played on KISS 107. 1's (WKFS-FM) 'Freak Show' ( 'The only show worth a bleep' is its slogan.) between 7 and 8 p.m. featured at least three or more edits.
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When this was done deliberately to expunge an expletive, it was called a bleep.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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When this was done deliberately to expunge an expletive, it was called a bleep.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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We have lately enriched our vocabularies in this area, too, with the word bleep (bleeping), which has replaced earlier blank, blankety-blank, not to mention s.o.b. and the like.
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