noun
bleep
BLEEP
noun
1
A short, high-pitched electronic sound.
"The microwave gave a bleep when the timer finished."
verb
1
To censor a word in a broadcast by replacing it with a beeping sound.
"The network bleeped out the swear word before airing the interview."
How to Use Bleep
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA short electronic beep, or the act of censoring speech with one.
Common pairings
bleep out
a loud bleep
Word Forms
bleeped past tense, bleeps plural, bleeps singular
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Etymology
Onomatopoeic — the word imitates the sound itself.