From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbleepbleep1 /bliːp/ noun [countable] Ca short high sound made by a piece of electronic equipment
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bleep• What the bleep is going on here?• the bleeps of a video gamebleepbleep2 verb 1 [intransitive]C to make a high electronic sound The timer on the cooker started to bleep.2 [transitive] British EnglishTCT to let someone know, through their bleeper, that you want them to telephone you SYN beep American English3 [transitive] (also bleep out)TCBAMT to prevent an offensive word being heard on television or the radio by making a high electronic sound All the swear words had been bleeped out.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
bleep• An hour earlier in the Emerald Suite, Jaq's comm-unit had bleeped.• Or where gangsta rap gets played with nothing bleeped.• The screen flickered for a few moments and bleeped.• Her heart was bleeping dully and her skin felt moist and feverish and she needed to talk - now.• Sindy bleeped in confusion and went to dredge the supplies' cupboards.• The TV network bleeped out the obscenities.Origin bleep1 (1900-2000) From the sound 