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Definitions: Bleep |
BleepNoun1. A short high tone produced as a signal or warning. Verb1. Emit a single short high-pitched signal, as of apparatus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Slang | Verb. Source: The English word beep which represents the sound most used in generating bleeps. Definition: 1. A portion of a song that has been made clean by replacing one sound with others (or one word with others). Silence, beeps, and buzzes can also be used. 2. A replacement for any word not playable in a broadcast. Context: Used in casual conversation when discussing words with questionable lyrics. Social Source: The Metal Disc Jockeys. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonym: BleepSynonym: beep (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | They're gonna bleep it anyway (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Colonel Bleep (1957) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Electronic tinny bleep. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ed McMahon | You know, in those days, you couldn't say ass on television. You know, now, it's all over the place. But, then, they would bleep it. But Jimmy Stewart, they left it in. The censors left it in. |
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| "Bleep" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 64.52% of the time. "Bleep" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 64.52% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20.97% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.52% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bleep": bleep out. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bleep": bleep-alert, bleep-in. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bleep | 22 |
bleep test | 20 |
bleep colonel | 10 |
bleep download test | 5 |
bleep wav | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "bleep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sinjal bip. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 尖"声音. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pípnutí (beep, chirp), pípání (cheep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | biper, bip, top. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | piepsen (cheep, cheeping, chirping, chirps, chirrup, peep, pipe, pule, squeak, to cheep, tweet), piepen (cheep, cheeping, chirp, chirping, chirrup, peep, pipe, pule, squeak, to beep, tweet, twitter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκπέμπω σήματα υψηλήσ συχνότητασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sípjellel kicenzúráz (to bleep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bip (beep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eepblay bip (beep). (various references) сигнал спутника земли. (various references) piskav zvuk, škripati (crackle, creak, grate, gride, grit, rasp, scrape, screak, scroop, squeak). (various references) llamar con un busca, emitir pitidos. (various references) pip (beak, beep, cheep, chirp, funnel, lip, nozzle, peep, pouring spout, Present Illness Program, snout, spout, squeak, tweet, whistle). (various references) เสียงสูงสั้นๆ เกิ"จากเครื่องอิเลกทรอนิกส์, ทำเสียงแหลมสั้นๆ, "ู"เสียงคำที่หยาบคายออกแล้วใส่เสียง บี๊บ ของเครื่องอิเลกทรอนิกส์เข้าไปแทน. (various references) biplemek, bip sesi (beep, pip), bip (beep, pip), çağrı cihazı (beeper, pager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bleep": bleeped, bleeping, bleeps. (additional references) | |
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"Bleep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beeeep, blape, blasp, bleaf, bleap, blee, bleef, bleeg, bleek, bleepy, blees, Bleet, bleeu, bleev, bleh, blej, blep, Bleuel, blev, blevey, blewe, blewp, bley, blipe, bloop, bly, cleep, fleep, gleep, kleeep. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bleep" (pronounced blē"p) |
| 3 | -l ē" p | asleep, leap, sleep. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: plebe. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-p" | |
-1 letter: beep, peel, pele, pleb. | |
-2 letters: bee, bel, eel, lee, pee. | |
-3 letters: be, el, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-p" | |
+1 letter: beleap, bleeps, pebble, plebes. | |
+2 letters: beleaps, beleapt, bleeped, pebbled, pebbles. | |
+3 letters: beanpole, bedimple, bedplate, beleaped, bepimple, bleeping, expiable, helpable, keepable, openable, operable, pebblier, peccable, peelable, periblem, plebeian, preamble, prebless, reapable, typeable. | |
+4 letters: beanpoles, beclasped, bedimpled, bedimples, bedplates, beleaping, bepimpled, bepimples, blaspheme, drapeable, epibolies, eruptible, hyperbole, palpebrae, peaceable, peaceably, pebbliest, periblems, permeable, placeable, placeboes, pleadable, plebeians, porbeagle, preambles, prebattle, prebendal, prebilled, preboiled, pregnable, preverbal, previable, reparable, repayable, replumbed, reputable, separable, shapeable, spareable, speakable, speedball, spendable, superable, temptable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 65 65 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . . .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01100101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e e p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 0065 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678717182 |
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