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bleep

noun
  1. A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

  2. Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.

    "What the bleep are you doing?"

  3. A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.

verb
  1. To emit one or more bleeps.

    "The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions."

  2. To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.

    Similar: blip

Synonymsblip

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