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bleeper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bleeper
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A bleeper sounds in the cab if the hoe is unable to distinguish the rows for a long time.
▪ At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks.
▪ He casually allowed his jacket to fall open revealing the bleeper and the computerized personal memo on his belt.
▪ I think they must have had a bleeper on my car.
▪ Its president had a bleeper attached to her belt.
▪ Recently Kelly explained how her parents carry a special bleeper which would go off when a suitable transplant donor was found.
▪ The problem is, you have to catch the selfish bleepers first.
Wiktionary
bleeper

n. 1 Something or someone that bleeps. 2 An electronic device that makes a bleeping sound to obscure certain words, used to censor spoken dialogue.

Usage examples of "bleeper".

She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life.

She raised her head immediately, already pressing on the bleeper, and pressed two fingers against the side of his neck, held them there for what seemed an endless time, and then raised the bleeper to her mouth.

Her place of work lay just beyond the trees outside, and a bleeper lying somewhere about the flat could go off at any time, day or night.

Sometime during the night she surfaced to hear Matty coming in, the bleeper sounding, Matty going out again.

We stopped and deposited the radio bleeper that had been modified to operate on the Russian Fleet Emergency wavelength.

Smith with his answerphone and presumably an automatic bleeper to alert him to messages so that he was always the one to phone you.

Annette, and the bleepers on her bloodpressure monitor began to sound.

Conversations were shouted, air-conditioning was a steady buzz, cybofax alarm bleepers were going off continuously, the PA kept up a steady stream of directions.