Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
- v. To emit a bleep or bleeps.
- 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
- n. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
- n. euphemistic Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
- n. music, slang, uncountable A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
- v. intransitive To emit one or more bleeps.
- v. transitive To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning.
- v. (Broadcasting) to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.
WordNet 3.0
- v. emit a single short high-pitched signal
- n. a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
Etymologies
- Onomatopoeic (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain.”
“That might explain why on a recent weeknight more than three-quarters of the hit tracks played on KISS 107. 1's (WKFS-FM) 'Freak Show' ( 'The only show worth a bleep' is its slogan.) between 7 and 8 p.m. featured at least three or more edits.”
“When this was done deliberately to expunge an expletive, it was called a bleep.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“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.”
“In addition to the many other obnoxious comments in Reinhardt’s dissent, what the bleep is up with footnote #6 and his utterly gratuitous reference to the Tea Party movement?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Upholds “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance,
“Thinking that the station had cut away to tape, Chi'en turned around and shouted, what the bleep is your problem, man.”
“What the bleep is your business here, stranger?" the troop chief demanded menacingly.”
“The problem is with them...sto zeeke: So why the bleep are the Japanese continuing to consume”
“So why the bleep are the Japanese continuing to consume whale meat?”
“I sincerely understand that the world's hair is on fire, and it is dashing about frantically wanting someone to take charge of things, and where the bleep is the POTUS?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bleep’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 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 102 more...
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The Blacklist
Stop SOPA.
blackout, redact, bowdlerize, censor, remove, conceal, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, control, edit, excise and 24 more...
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Scaryland
white rabbit, formaldehyde, distributed world..., pathetic fallacy, candy, reality, playing people, improbable, absurd, bleep, real world, demagogic and 5 more...
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Why We Curse: WTF?
This list collects the magnificent collection of vocabulary of the article "What the F***? Why We Curse," by Steven Pinker, in The New Republic (Oct. 2007). I think I'm more impressed with the coll...
curse, language, earthy, ancient, unthinkable, thinkable, emotional, rhyme, meter, alliteration, pleasure, metaphor and 196 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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horizon, echo, undulation, resonance, reflection, acoustic, swoosh, distant, glide, interspace, marbles, radiant and 144 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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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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The Wørd
Trademark of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
truthiness, bacchanalia, disappointed, love handles, pussy, overrated, perspective, quitter, alito, camilla-mania, cat, shhhh!... and 335 more...
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Spod's Words
corpulent, squidge, squiffy, sinuosity, ebullient, finger, penetrate, stimulate, recalcitrant, recidivist, dunnock, rococo and 152 more...
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Gamers and Fanboys and Furries, Oh My!
Specialized slang words from different subcultures:
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fans
Online Gamers and RPGers
Furries
Gothsfurcon, furridom, furson, fursuit, furvert, greymuzzle, macrofurry, morph, mundane, plushophile, 'taur, therianthropy and 18 more...
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MEC3 Lesson 133
approval, seal, embarrassing, feature, stunt, backfire, misfortune, classic, set the scene, broadcast, stage manager, proper and 55 more...
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zachhale's Words
octopus, amoeba, intellect, froth, noob, latency, malleable, plethora, agnostic, stoked, word, preposterous and 45 more...
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