bleep
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Definitions
noun
- A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
- Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.“What the bleep are you doing?”
- A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
verb
- To emit one or more bleeps.“The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.”
- To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.