Complete Definition of "bleep"

English

Etymology
onomatopoetic|Onomatopoetic

Noun
en-noun

  1. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  2. euphemism Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

#: What the bleep are you doing?

Translations
trans-top|high-pitched sound
French: bip
Spanish pip
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Verb
en-verb

  1. intransitive To emit one or more bleeps.
  2. transitive To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
  3. euphemism To do action named by an explicit verb in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

#: Bleep you!

Category:Onomatopoeia

ru:bleep
vi:bleep
zh:bleep

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