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bleep

noun

Meaning

  • A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

  • Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

    "What the bleep are you doing?"

  • A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.

verb

Meaning

  • To emit one or more bleeps.

    "The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions."

  • To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

Synonyms

blip