bleep

Plural: bleeps

Noun

• a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
• A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
• A general euphemism for any expletive.
• A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
• A pager, usually one held by a doctor or nurse in a hospital.

Verb

Verb Forms: bleeped, bleeping, bleeps

• To make a short, high-pitched electronic sound; to censor.
• emit a single short high-pitched signal
  • "The computer bleeped away"
• To emit one or more bleeps.
• To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
• To contact someone by pager.

Examples

• If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.
• The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
• The timer began to BLEEP, signaling the end of his turn in Words With Friends.
• What the bleep are you doing?

Synonyms

beep, blip

Anagrams of bleep