BLEEP


Meaning of BLEEP in English

I. bleep 1 /bliːp/ BrE AmE noun [countable]

[ Date: 1900-2000 ; Origin: From the sound ]

1 . a short high sound made by a piece of electronic equipment

2 . a bleeper

II. bleep 2 BrE AmE verb

1 . [intransitive] to make a high electronic sound:

The timer on the cooker started to bleep.

2 . [transitive] British English to let someone know, through their bleeper, that you want them to telephone you SYN beep American English

3 . [transitive] ( also bleep out ) to prevent an offensive word being heard on television or the radio by making a high electronic sound:

All the swear words had been bleeped out.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.