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Definition of "bleep" []

  • A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device. (noun)
  • To emit a bleep or bleeps. (verb-intransitive)
  • To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound: The station bleeped out the expletives from the taped interview. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bleep" in a sentence
  • "You see, my [bleep] - ing [bleep] is considerably larger than my [bleep] - ing brain."
  • "That might explain why on a recent weeknight more than three-quarters of the hit tracks played on KISS 107. 1's (WKFS-FM) 'Freak Show' ( 'The only show worth a bleep' is its slogan.) between 7 and 8 p.m. featured at least three or more edits."
  • "When this was done deliberately to expunge an expletive, it was called a bleep."