tweep
tweep noun: a chirp or beep.
Noun (1)
tweep (plural tweeps)
- A chirp or beep.
- The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps.1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside, →ISBN, page 321
- Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press, →ISBN, page 106
Verb (1)
tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)
- To chirp or beep.
- A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN
- No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard, →ISBN, page 103
Verb (2)
tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)
- To kill; to assassinate.
- Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley, →ISBN
Noun (2)
tweep (plural tweeps or tweeple)
- A user of the Twitter microblogging service.
- As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]2011, David Javerbaum (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 305
- A Twitter employee.
- “I recognize this is a crazy moment where Tweeps are losing access and the layoff is in progress,” she wrote on Slack, adding a broken heart emoji and a link to a video conferencing room, according to messages viewed by The Times.2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, quoting Esther Crawford, “Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from...
Synonyms of tweep
Forms of tweep
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tweeps |
| plural | tweeple |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tweeps |
| present participle | tweeping |
| past participle | tweeped |
| past | tweeped |
Origin of tweep
Onomatopoeic.
From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.
Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”).
Words that rhyme with tweep
Questions about tweep
- What does tweep mean?
- Tweep means a chirp or beep.
- What part of speech is tweep?
- Tweep can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of tweep?
- The plural of tweep is tweeps.
Words near tweep in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tweep (page history and authors). 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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-tweep.ogg.
Cite this entry: “tweep.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tweep. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.