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We have lately enriched our vocabularies in this area, too, with the word bleep (bleeping), which has replaced earlier blank, blankety-blank, not to mention s.o.b. and the like.
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- noun A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
- intransitive verb To emit a bleep or bleeps.
- transitive verb To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound: The station bleeped out the expletives from the taped interview.
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We have lately enriched our vocabularies in this area, too, with the word bleep (bleeping), which has replaced earlier blank, blankety-blank, not to mention s.o.b. and the like.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 -
Thinking that the station had cut away to tape, Chi'en turned around and shouted, what the bleep is your problem, man.
— CNN Transcript May 20, 2005 - "What the bleep is your business here, stranger?" — Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
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And again, the bleep is a redaction.
— CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008 -
And the word bleep was not the word he used.
— CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008
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