Definitions
American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sound or a signal, as from a horn or an electronic device.
- v. To make a beep.
- v. To cause to make a beep.
- v. To call, summon, or warn by means of a beeper.
Wiktionary
- n. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
- n. A short, electronically produced tone.
- v. To sound (something that makes a beep).
- v. To have intercourse (with)
- v. To produce a beep.
WordNet 3.0
- v. call, summon, or alert with a beeper
- v. make a loud noise
- n. a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
Etymologies
- Imitative.
Examples
“*Beep beep beep* *Beep beep beep*”
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“*Beep beep beep* Splort danger *Beee beee beep* Splort danger”
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“Cooling down the road runner..beep beep”
“Someone outside dials a cell phone number and instantly a 17 year old trusting and innocent man with Down Syndrome hears a small beep from the bomb that had been strapped to his body and then the explosion tears his body apart as he becomes the first human bomb with an intellectual disability.”
“It's always either a forwarded joke, or mass death, when I see his name beep up on the phone's screen unexpectedly.”
“Set a custom alarm time on a per day basis, Sunday through Saturday, and set the sound to just a plain beep, or choose a song from your computerās digital music library.”
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“At the stoplight, she checked her cell phone and saw that the beep was a reminder on her calendar.”
“It was more like the clipped kind of beep that you make when you want your girlfriend to climb out of her bedroom window without waking her parents.”
“It didn't do much, just sent a "beep" over the radio -- which could be picked up by any amateur "ham" radio operator whenever it flew overhead.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Obama's New Theme: A Sputnik Moment
“The Soviets didn't stop with a shiny two-foot ball which went "beep," though, and soon after had launched the first living thing into orbit a dog named Laika.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Obama's New Theme: A Sputnik Moment
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beep’.
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 184 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 241 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 85 more...
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onomatopoeias
words that sound like they sound.
beep, honk, hiccup, purr, crash, zip, snore, dhak dhak, poomp, awooga, zmurck, noogle and 3 more...
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Fun to Say
Oh-so-pronounceable words.
schwa, sprack, rubbly, swashbuckler, hecka, tartine, ambiguous, ghee, trapped in, abecedarius, highfalutin, dirigible and 24 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1359 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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words... of the FUTURE
robot, automaton, dirigible, nebula, pangalactic, starscape, terran, photon, graviton, superstring, beep, dome and 54 more...
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Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds.
bam, bamf, bang, boom, snikt, ping, plink, plonk, boing, whoosh, kaboom, crash and 68 more...


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