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Bleep — may refer to:* Bleep sound, a noise, generally of a single tone, often generated by a machine ** Bleep censor, the replacement of swear words or personal details with a beep sound; see also Tape delay (broadcasting) * A minimalist style of… … Wikipedia
bleep — ► NOUN ▪ a short high pitched sound made by an electronic device as a signal or to attract attention. ► VERB 1) make a bleep. 2) (in broadcasting) censor (a word or phrase) by substituting a bleep. 3) summon with a bleeper. ORIGIN imitative … English terms dictionary
bleep — /bleep/, n. 1. a brief, constant beeping sound, usually of a high pitch and generated by an electronic device. 2. such an electronic sound used to replace a censored word or phrase, as on a television broadcast. 3. Also, blip. (used as a… … Universalium
bleep — [blēp] n. [echoic] 1. BEEP 2. a) a recording, as of an electronic tone, over a segment of a soundtrack, as for covering an expletive b) a word substituted as a euphemism for such an expletive, vulgar or taboo word, etc. vi. BEEP … English World dictionary
censor — [v] forbid; ban; selectively remove abridge, blacklist, black out*, bleach, bleep*, blue pencil*, bowdlerize, clean up, conceal, control, cork*, criticize, cut, decontaminate, delete, drop the iron curtain*, edit, examine, excise, expurgate,… … New thesaurus
bleep — /blip / (say bleep) verb (i) 1. to emit a high pitched broken sound, or a radio signal. –noun 2. a single short high pitched sound. 3. (euphemistic) (a word used to indicate an offensive word which has been censored): what the bleep does she… …
bleep — noun a short high pitched sound made by an electronic device as a signal or to attract attention. verb 1》 (of an electronic device) make a bleep. 2》 (in broadcasting) censor (a word or phrase) by substituting a bleep. Derivatives bleeper noun… … English new terms dictionary
bleep out — verb to censor inappropriate spoken words by obscuring them with the sound of a bleep … Wiktionary
censor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. reviewer, critic; fault finder; watchdog. v. t. expurgate, delete; cut, edit; suppress, muzzle, silence. See deduction, secret. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inspector, judge, expurgator, guardian of… … English dictionary for students
