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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
beeper
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And then you can always keep your beeper.
▪ Backcountry skiers head for the hills with their shovels and avalanche beepers.
▪ Bosses attached beepers to their favorite analysts, making it possible to call them in at all hours.
▪ C., its members carry beepers and can be ready to go anywhere in the world within hours.
▪ Consider the school principal who discovers students wearing beepers to stay in contact with their superiors in the drug trade.
▪ He said, when he got the beeper.
▪ In a centralized system, the principal asks the school board to promulgate a regulation about beepers.
▪ Sure I know kids are into thum beeper shits right now.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
beeper

pager \pag"er\, n. A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station. Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered; the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound, indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message; or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call, or may display a short message. Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook, or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing. Also called beeper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beeper

"device that emits beeps," 1946, agent noun from beep (v.).

Wiktionary
beeper

n. 1 Something that makes a beeping sound, especially a simple computer speaker. 2 A pager.

WordNet
beeper

n. an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged [syn: pager]

Wikipedia
Beeper

Beeper may refer to:

  • Pager
  • Buzzer
  • PC speaker
  • Avalanche transceiver
  • "Beeper" (song), the debut single by The Count and Sinden
  • Beeper (film), a 2002 film
Beeper (song)

"Beeper" is the debut single by British music producers The Count & Sinden, featuring vocals from American hip hop artist Kid Sister. The song was released via Domino Records in April 2008 (see 2008 in music).

Beeper (film)

Beeper is a 2002 film directed by Jack Sholder.

Usage examples of "beeper".

With immense relief, Nathan reaches inside, peering down at the darkened beeper display.

He pulls the legal envelope from his jacket pocket and leaves it on the bar before him, stares at it-and clutches, again, the beeper on his belt.

Again it is Errol Santos NYPD with his attendant numbers, home, work, beeper, cell-phone, a play for urgency.

Just as the beeper vibrates again for the second installment, but Nathan, not bothering, rebuttons his jacket.

Clipping the beeper safely to his belt, Nathan presses thumb and forefinger, his messages flying off to wherever they fly, to message heaven, the graveyard of electronically snubbed pleas and particles of undesired need.

Strange was coming out of a massage parlor when he felt his beeper vibrate against his hip.

As he was crossing the street, the beeper on his hip sounded, and he checked the numbered readout: Janine.

Lee looked up and saw a strong middle-aged man in a black leather jacket, a beeper and a Buck knife and a cell on his belt line, with a younger white dude, also in a leather, had a cocky walk, coming toward him.

The beeper went off while I was still a few blocks away from my apartment, and when I glanced down and noted that the number on the lighted display was unfamiliar, I decided to wait until I got upstairs to return the call.

The beeper attached to my waistband went off just as the waitress returned with my iced coffee.

Mike squinted to look at the number displayed on his beeper, which must have been vibrating on his waistband, while I went on talking.

The beeper was going off, so I removed it and saw that it was my office number.

Whoever it was, he knew my beeper number, which was a whole lot more than I knew about him.

The sound of my beeper was usually an intrusion, but particularly so when it erupted at that moment.

I put my cell phone and my beeper into the pockets, and my radio, too.