Crossword clues for bleep
bleep
- Sound of censoring
- Sound covering an expletive
- Obscenity obscurer, sometimes
- It may replace an oath
- Four-letter-word concealer
- Audio erasure
- [Curse word]
- TV censor's sound
- Sound used to censor a bad word on television
- Sound that covers up a naughty word on TV
- Sound of censorship
- Result of bad word choice?
- Response to an air offensive?
- Reality show interruption, maybe
- Radio censor's sound
- Obscenity cover-up
- It may replace a four-letter word
- High-pitched electrical signal
- Four-letter-word eliminator
- Expletive coverer
- Edit out, in a way
- Edit an expletive
- Drown out, as a dirty word
- Deal with an expletive
- Cussword cover-up
- Cuss word surrogate
- Curse substitution
- Cover up, as a cussword
- Cover up an expletive
- Common reality show sound
- Censors sound
- Censorial sound
- Censored-word sound
- Censor's recourse
- Censor's insert
- Censor's cover-up
- Block out profanity
- Act as censor
- "Expletive deleted" sound
- Censor, in a way
- Censor's sound
- Make suitable for family viewing, e.g.
- "Candid Camera" sound
- Clean up, in a way
- Remove the dirt from?
- [expletive deleted]
- One may replace an oath
- Dispel a curse?
- Audio censor's sound
- [unmentionable]
- "@#$!" cover-up
- A short high tone produced as a signal or warning
- Censor something said on TV
- Electronic censor
- TV deletion
- Censor, as a tape
- Expletive replacement
- TV censor's signal
- Censor a telecast
- Censor almost ruined recording
- Electronic noise from bass getting radio DJ upset
- Sound to cover expletive in unforgettable episode
- Sharp electronic sound
- TV's curse? Left during live recording
- Slip cover?
- Censoring sound
- High-pitched sound
- Censor's insertion
- Paging device sound
- Electronic sound
- Censor audibly
- Audibly censor
- Expletive deleted
- Censorship sound
- Censoring tone
- Censor sound
- Substitute for a bad word
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bleep \bleep\ n. a short high-pitched tone produced as a signal or warning.
Syn: beep.
bleep \bleep\ v. t. (Broadcasting) to to obscure or replace (an offensive word or phrase) by substituting a beeping sound while broadcasting.
Syn: bleep out.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"electronic noise," 1953, imitative.
1957, from bleep (n.); specific sense of "edit a sound over a word deemed unfit for broadcast" is from 1968 (earliest reference seems to be to the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" on U.S. television). Related: Bleeped; bleeping.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device. 2 (context euphemistic English) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence. 3 (context music slang uncountable English) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To emit one or more bleeps. 2 (context transitive English) To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
WordNet
n. a short high tone produced as a signal or warning [syn: beep]
v. emit a single short high-pitched signal; "The computer bleeped away"
Wikipedia
Bleep may refer to:
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Bleep sound, a noise, generally of a single tone, often generated by a machine
- Bleep censor, the replacement of offensive language (swear words) or personal details with a beep sound
- Bleep.com, an online music store established by Warp Records
- A term for a pager, especially in medical institutions
- Colonel Bleep, the first colour cartoon ever made for television
- Bleep, a fictional character in the Josie and the Pussycats cartoon
Usage examples of "bleep".
Nimby get even a little curious about what human love and bleep was all about?
He even caught the faint perfume of the bleep who had lured Woofer in.
I just wanted to get rid of these things so I could forget the bleep and think about something else.
As television used to do on Earth, I will bleep his more offensive utterances.
The bleep was the alert - wait for the continuous sound, which is the summons.
Even as the seconds passed, the bleep became more and more insistent, urgent.
I get up and head briskly back across the lawn when a bleep from my pocket makes me stop still.
He coughed to cover the copy completion bleep, then palmed the disk, slipping it into the trashcan by the door as the janitor moved into Processing to sweep.
They told him to shut his bleeping mouth and get his bleeping bleep the bleep outa here.
He was returning from the northern edge of the floe when the handset that Fleischer had issued him bleeped in his pocket.
Go back to your crucifix or your crucible and change your bleeping incantation.
The signal changed, the homing-signal began to emit a broken, bleeping call, two to the second.
He held a palm-size machine with a coil of wire looping from it out in front of him, the debugger bleeping every ten seconds.
He married the units, then hit enter, the wristpad bleeping as it measured the amount of compression stress being exerted on the rock of the graben.
Abidan said, leading them through a ghost studio, devoid of people, full of bleeping equipment.