bleep
/ˈbliːp/
bleep noun: a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
Noun
bleep (countable and uncountable, plural bleeps)
- A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
- A general euphemism for any expletive.
- What the bleep are you doing?
- Who the bleep are you, Bob Kavin, to tell lesbians whether or not it's "appropriate" for us to gather together as women?1990 February 4, Beth Elliott, “Not Men's Property”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3
- A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
- See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep. I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.2005, Jennie Kermode, “What is gothic?”, in alt.gothic (Usenet)
- A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not...2005, oldgoth, “Theaving^([sic]) Goths”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet)
- A pager, usually one held by a doctor or nurse in a hospital.
Verb
bleep (third-person singular simple present bleeps, present participle bleeping, simple past and past participle bleeped)
- To emit one or more bleeps.
- The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.
- The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock.2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 20 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 52
- To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
- Synonyms:
- blip
- To contact someone by pager.
- If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.
bleep meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
bleep in Tamil
- பிளீப்
bleep in Marathi
- ब्लीप, ब्लीपिंग करण्यासाठी
bleep in Urdu
- پیں پیں
bleep in Bengali
- ব্লীপ
More languagesFewer languages
- bleep in Malayalam
- ബ്ലീപ്പ്
Examples of bleep in a sentence
- Are you bleeping kidding me? That's the amount of rent we agreed!
- His tirade contained a torrent of expletives that were bleeped out by his press service.
- As we exited the observatory's parking lot, the truck's computer monitor started bleeping angrily.
Synonyms of bleep
Forms of bleep
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bleeps |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bleeps |
| present participle | bleeping |
| past participle | bleeped |
| past | bleeped |
Origin of bleep
Onomatopoeic.
Words formed from bleep
Phrases with bleep
Words that rhyme with bleep
Questions about bleep
- What does bleep mean?
- Bleep means a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
- What is bleep in Tamil?
- Bleep in Tamil is பிளீப். See Bleep meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bleep?
- Bleep can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bleep?
- Bleep is pronounced /ˈbliːp/.
- What is the plural of bleep?
- The plural of bleep is bleeps.
Words near bleep in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bleep (page history and authors); bleep (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bleep (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bleep (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bleep (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bleep (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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