eep

Interjection

1. (onomatopoeic) An expression of surprise or dismay.
   • Hot-dog vendor: "Get him!"
     Bart: "Eep."1993, “Bart's Inner Child”, in The Simpsons
   • Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.
     "Eep," I said.2000, Adam Cadre, Ready, Okay!, New York: Harper Collins, →ISBN, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   wow, yikes

Noun (1)

eep (plural eeps)

1. A short scream or yelp.
   • "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."1853, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, editors, The Knickerbocker, page 460
   • She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep.”2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy, Red Wheel, →ISBN, page 29

Verb (1)

eep (third-person singular simple present eeps, present participle eeping, simple past and past participle eeped)

1. To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
   • Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy, Red Wheel, →ISBN, page 29
   • Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin”, in Athletic Shorts, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 75

Noun (2)

eep (countable and uncountable, plural eeps)

1. (Internet, humorous) Sleep.

Verb (2)

eep (third-person singular simple present eeps, present participle eeping, simple past and past participle eeped or ept)

1. (Internet, humorous) To sleep.