Definition of "cheeped" [cheeped]

• Simple past tense and past participle of cheep. (verb)

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• "True, these pets may have heard their parents 'calls before they were taken from the nest, but it is not at all likely that they would have remembered them, for at first they only "cheeped" after the manner of most bantlings, and only a good while afterward did they fall to using the adult chirp."
• "A few birds cheeped in bird innocence, but that was the only sound as the man sauntered toward that purse like some tough sheriff in a Western, though then again, maybe it was just the leather chaps, well, chapping, that made him walk that way."
• "There was a quarter moon shining, the stars came out, the crickets cheeped."