Definitions for bleeps

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Spelling: [bleep]

IPA: /blip/

Bleeps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in bleeps (beelps).

Definitions for bleeps

noun

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 euphemism to indicate the omission or deletion of an obscenity or other objectionable word).

verb (used with object)

1. Also, blip. to censor (an obscene, vulgar, or other objectionable word or phrase) from a radio or television broadcast by deleting from the audio signal, leaving a gap or an electronic tone:

verb (used without object)

1. (of an electronic device) to emit a series of bleeps as an audible signal, summons, or warning.

Origin of bleeps

First recorded in 1950-55; perhaps imitative

Examples for bleeps

Quinn hugged the woman and bellowed, “They may have to bleep ya!”

He tried another, and the bleep this time was far more insistent (and more alarming).

Messed around and got stuck, now he’s sitting at home like, ‘What the [bleep]?!

If you listened closely during the bleep, you could faintly hear Jacqueline Bissett still giving her speech.

It went very badly with [bleep],” says Banon, half laughing as she compares him to a “rutting chimpanzee.

Did Miss New York call current Miss America 'fat as [bleep]'?

Scenes like these are replayed daily on TV shows like Who the (bleep) Did I Marry?