Meaning

3 senses
  1. (intransitive)To emit one or more bleeps.

    The robot bleeped to acknowledge its new instructions.

    piepen, piepsen

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

    запикиватьzapikivatʹ, запикатьzapikatʹ

  3. (UK)To contact someone by pager.

    If his condition gets any worse, please bleep the registrar on call.

More definitions
  • emit a single short high-pitched signal

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to emit high-pitched sound:

Forms

bleeps, bleeping, bleeped, bleeped
Base formbleep · to bleep
3rd person singularbleeps
Present participlebleeping
Past simplebleeped
Past participlebleeped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybleep
he, she, itbleeps

Past simpleLesson

all personsbleeped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bleeped
he, she, ithas bleeped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bleep

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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