bleep

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