Meaning

2 senses

  1. To chirp or beep.

  2. (US, euphemistic)To kill; to assassinate.

Origin

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and C

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

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Forms

tweeps, tweeping, tweeped, tweeped

regular · Lesson

Base formtweep · to tweep
3rd person singulartweeps
Present participletweeping
Past simpletweeped
Past participletweeped

Tenses

tweep · tweeped · will tweep · have tweeped

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytweep
he, she, ittweeps

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tweep

Past simpleLesson

all personstweeped

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
tweaktweedtweettweezer

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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