| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl p |
| NOUN: | A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: bleeped, bleep·ing, bleeps
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To emit a bleep or bleeps. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound: The station bleeped out the expletives from the taped interview. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Imitative. | | OTHER FORMS: | bleep er —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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