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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
  2. v. To emit a bleep or bleeps.
  3. v. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  2. n. Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
  3. n. A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
  4. v. To emit one or more bleeps.
  5. v. To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning.
  2. v. to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. emit a single short high-pitched signal
  2. n. a short high tone produced as a signal or warning

Etymologies

  1. Imitative.

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