bleepn.

Brit.

/bliːp/, U.S.

/blip/

Etymology: Echoic.

a. A thin, high-pitched blipping sound, spec. one made by electronic equipment.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > bleep or pip

pip-pip1909

meep1927

beep-beep1929

pip1929

bleep1953

bleeping1957

peep1957

wheep1984

1953 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 2 Aug. ii. 5 The bleeps of Geiger counters make ‘penny stocks’ on the country's exchanges palpitate into investors' bonanzas.

1957 Daily Mail 7 Oct. 1/1 From now on we shall be living in a different world, for science ‘fiction’ has become fact. Those eerie ‘bleeps’ from outer space tell us that.

1957 Daily Mail 7 Oct. 1/2 Instead of the quick bleep-bleep sound it [sc. the Russian earth satellite] made on the first 24 hours of its journey, New York radio stations reported a long, continuous b-l-e-e-p as it crossed the United States.

1958 Times 29 July 10/7 The driver honked his horn. ‘Bleep, bo-o-oop, parp.’

1966 New Scientist 497/2 The slow pattern of bleeps from the loudspeaker..suddenly changes.

b. The sound made by a bleeper or paging device; a radio signal used to communicate with someone carrying a bleeper.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun] > pager > sound made by

bleep1975

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > bleep or pip > made by a paging device

bleep1975

1975 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Apr. 1/7 If a Member is required urgently a switchboard operator will give him..a ‘bleep’ and relay any messages.

1986 Daily Tel. 19 May 26/8 A bleep to a maintenance man working away from his van..can provide the signal to call base via PMR.

c. = bleeper n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun] > pager

pager1954

radio pager1954

pocket pager1955

bleeper1964

pageboy1973

bleep1982

1982 Sci. Amer. Nov. 11 Thanks to the national radio paging system, a doctor can be alerted to an emergency by a ‘bleep’, carried about his person.

1985 Medical Woman Spring 15 We share a bleep.

a. A bleeping sound edited over and replacing a taboo-word or undesirable expression used during a recorded interview, etc. Cf. blip n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > censor

bleep1968

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > taboo > sound which substitutes taboo word or expression

bleep1968

1968 Life 12 Apr. 18/4 The Rowan and Martin staff, they say, is so free-wheeling that a fulltime censor has been assigned…Over in Smothersville, similar ballyhoo is made over every insignificant bleep.

1975 Pix (Austral.) 27 Nov. 2/2 I fail to see why bleeps are used in radio and television interviews to cover up ‘unsavoury’ words and expressions. As soon as the bleep is heard the listeners immediately think—Oh, a four-letter word.

1978 Rugby World Apr. 36/2 When that particular sequence..eventually appeared on BBC 2,..it miraculously contained only two bleeps.

1984 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. 2 a 3/1 On Tuesday night at 8, ABC will present ‘Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders’.

b. The word (written or spoken) used to replace such an expression.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > taboo > word which substitutes taboo word or expression

bleep1978

N-word1985

1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. b10/3 I..stand up there with my coffee or cola or ginger ale and (bleep) away on an emotional high. His talk is full of idiom requiring bleeps for family readers.

1981 Gossip (Holiday Special) 50/3 I've never believed off-Broadway and that kind of theatre is only for friends and ‘we're better than the others’ stuff. I've always believed it is great horse (bleep).

1983 N.Y. Times 22 May ii. 1/1 It looks like the same old (bleep) to me.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

bleepv.

Etymology: < bleep n.

1. intransitive. To make a thin, high-pitched blipping sound or ‘bleep’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > bleep or pip

meep1927

pip1938

bleep1957

1957 Times 11 Oct. 11/6 There is a Soviet satellite bleeping round the earth.

1958 Daily Mail 15 Aug. 2/5 Every dinghy was fitted with a radio which bleeps out S O S at the touch of a simple switch.

2. transitive. To replace (a taboo expression used in a recorded interview, etc.) with a bleep; to censor. Frequently with out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by noise

to knock out1574

bleep1973

society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > transmit by television [verb (transitive)] > censor

bleep1973

1968 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 86 Some of his nightly quips are ‘blipped’ from tape before air time.]

1973 Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Texas Mag.) 2/3 It offends me to have to ‘bleep’ most of it, because that detracts from our goal of telling it like it is.

1976 TV Times (Brisbane) 12 June 13/3 Unfortunately..somebody forgot to bleep the words out.

1981 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 19/3 One swearword..would be muted... Four others would be ‘bleeped’.

1983 Financial Times 7 Apr. 11/2 Radio stations broadcasting Parliament should use a panic button to bleep out defamatory comments in live broadcasts.

a. To summon or alert (someone carrying a bleeper), to ‘page’.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > paging > page [verb (transitive)]

page1936

bleep1976

1976 Telegraph (Brisbane) 14 Feb. 2/6 The Federal Government is to spend more than $60,000 so that Members of Parliament can be ‘bleeped’ to notify them of telephone calls when they are out of their offices.

1980 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 19/5 People carrying them [sc. bleepers] can be ‘bleeped’ by dialling a ten-figure number.

1983 Listener 4 Aug. 34/3 It will even bleep the investor strolling round the golf course.

b. To transmit (information) by electronic means, esp. between computer terminals. Of an electronic device: to signal (a message).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (transitive)] > transmit or relay > signal

bleep1978

1978 Washington Post 5 Mar. m3 That is the increasingly clear message being bleeped to major U.S. companies.

1983 Washington Post 16 June a18/3 At the wheel was a black Memphis businessman, his ‘fuzzbuster’ radar speed trap detector bleeping caution.

Derivatives

ˈbleeping adj. that bleeps; also (slang) = bleeding adj.; also as n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [adjective] > euphemisms for stronger oaths

adjective1851

something1859

adjectived1869

qualified1886

epitheted1896

adj.1903

jiggering1903

adjectival1907

jeezly1908

blerry1920

bluggy1921

somethinged1922

socking1941

bleeping1957

naffing1959

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > bleep or pip

pip-pip1909

meep1927

beep-beep1929

pip1929

bleep1953

bleeping1957

peep1957

wheep1984

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > thin and shrill > bleep or pip

pipping1923

bleeping1957

beeping1958

beeped1962

1957 Observer 13 Oct. 12/3 The suggestion has been that most of the weight comes from batteries to power the bleeping radio transmitters.

1966 New Scientist 24 Feb. 497/1 The noctule gives a strong response..with a slow and rather deliberate liquid ‘bleeping’ note.

1968 B. Norman Hounds of Sparta xvii. 187 The bleeping grew fainter or stronger depending on his position.

1983 Washington Post 6 Feb. (Mag. section) 37/1 The whole bleeping menagerie of cathode critters.

bleeped adj.

/bliːpt/ alerted by bleeper.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [adjective] > paged

bleeped1982

1982 Financial Times 1 Nov. 16/2 The systems could..tell the selectively ‘bleeped’ pager-wearer to..call the Pabx operator.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	bleep
释义	bleepn. Brit. /bliːp/, U.S. /blip/ Etymology: Echoic. 1. a. A thin, high-pitched blipping sound, spec. one made by electronic equipment. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > bleep or pip pip-pip1909 meep1927 beep-beep1929 pip1929 bleep1953 bleeping1957 peep1957 wheep1984 1953 N.Y. Herald-Tribune 2 Aug. ii. 5 The bleeps of Geiger counters make ‘penny stocks’ on the country's exchanges palpitate into investors' bonanzas. 1957 Daily Mail 7 Oct. 1/1 From now on we shall be living in a different world, for science ‘fiction’ has become fact. Those eerie ‘bleeps’ from outer space tell us that. 1957 Daily Mail 7 Oct. 1/2 Instead of the quick bleep-bleep sound it [sc. the Russian earth satellite] made on the first 24 hours of its journey, New York radio stations reported a long, continuous b-l-e-e-p as it crossed the United States. 1958 Times 29 July 10/7 The driver honked his horn. ‘Bleep, bo-o-oop, parp.’ 1966 New Scientist 497/2 The slow pattern of bleeps from the loudspeaker..suddenly changes. b. The sound made by a bleeper or paging device; a radio signal used to communicate with someone carrying a bleeper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun] > pager > sound made by bleep1975 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > bleep or pip > made by a paging device bleep1975 1975 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Apr. 1/7 If a Member is required urgently a switchboard operator will give him..a ‘bleep’ and relay any messages. 1986 Daily Tel. 19 May 26/8 A bleep to a maintenance man working away from his van..can provide the signal to call base via PMR. c. = bleeper n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [noun] > pager pager1954 radio pager1954 pocket pager1955 bleeper1964 pageboy1973 bleep1982 1982 Sci. Amer. Nov. 11 Thanks to the national radio paging system, a doctor can be alerted to an emergency by a ‘bleep’, carried about his person. 1985 Medical Woman Spring 15 We share a bleep. 2. a. A bleeping sound edited over and replacing a taboo-word or undesirable expression used during a recorded interview, etc. Cf. blip n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > censor bleep1968 the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > taboo > sound which substitutes taboo word or expression bleep1968 1968 Life 12 Apr. 18/4 The Rowan and Martin staff, they say, is so free-wheeling that a fulltime censor has been assigned…Over in Smothersville, similar ballyhoo is made over every insignificant bleep. 1975 Pix (Austral.) 27 Nov. 2/2 I fail to see why bleeps are used in radio and television interviews to cover up ‘unsavoury’ words and expressions. As soon as the bleep is heard the listeners immediately think—Oh, a four-letter word. 1978 Rugby World Apr. 36/2 When that particular sequence..eventually appeared on BBC 2,..it miraculously contained only two bleeps. 1984 N.Y. Times 8 Jan. 2 a 3/1 On Tuesday night at 8, ABC will present ‘Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders’. b. The word (written or spoken) used to replace such an expression. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > taboo > word which substitutes taboo word or expression bleep1978 N-word1985 1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. b10/3 I..stand up there with my coffee or cola or ginger ale and (bleep) away on an emotional high. His talk is full of idiom requiring bleeps for family readers. 1981 Gossip (Holiday Special) 50/3 I've never believed off-Broadway and that kind of theatre is only for friends and ‘we're better than the others’ stuff. I've always believed it is great horse (bleep). 1983 N.Y. Times 22 May ii. 1/1 It looks like the same old (bleep) to me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022). bleepv. Etymology: < bleep n. 1. intransitive. To make a thin, high-pitched blipping sound or ‘bleep’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > sound shrill [verb (intransitive)] > bleep or pip meep1927 pip1938 bleep1957 1957 Times 11 Oct. 11/6 There is a Soviet satellite bleeping round the earth. 1958 Daily Mail 15 Aug. 2/5 Every dinghy was fitted with a radio which bleeps out S O S at the touch of a simple switch. 2. transitive. To replace (a taboo expression used in a recorded interview, etc.) with a bleep; to censor. Frequently with out. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by noise to knock out1574 bleep1973 society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > transmit by television [verb (transitive)] > censor bleep1973 1968 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 86 Some of his nightly quips are ‘blipped’ from tape before air time.] 1973 Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Texas Mag.) 2/3 It offends me to have to ‘bleep’ most of it, because that detracts from our goal of telling it like it is. 1976 TV Times (Brisbane) 12 June 13/3 Unfortunately..somebody forgot to bleep the words out. 1981 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 19/3 One swearword..would be muted... Four others would be ‘bleeped’. 1983 Financial Times 7 Apr. 11/2 Radio stations broadcasting Parliament should use a panic button to bleep out defamatory comments in live broadcasts. 3. a. To summon or alert (someone carrying a bleeper), to ‘page’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > paging > page [verb (transitive)] page1936 bleep1976 1976 Telegraph (Brisbane) 14 Feb. 2/6 The Federal Government is to spend more than $60,000 so that Members of Parliament can be ‘bleeped’ to notify them of telephone calls when they are out of their offices. 1980 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 19/5 People carrying them [sc. bleepers] can be ‘bleeped’ by dialling a ten-figure number. 1983 Listener 4 Aug. 34/3 It will even bleep the investor strolling round the golf course. b. To transmit (information) by electronic means, esp. between computer terminals. Of an electronic device: to signal (a message). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (transitive)] > transmit or relay > signal bleep1978 1978 Washington Post 5 Mar. m3 That is the increasingly clear message being bleeped to major U.S. companies. 1983 Washington Post 16 June a18/3 At the wheel was a black Memphis businessman, his ‘fuzzbuster’ radar speed trap detector bleeping caution. Derivatives ˈbleeping adj. that bleeps; also (slang) = bleeding adj.; also as n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [adjective] > euphemisms for stronger oaths adjective1851 something1859 adjectived1869 qualified1886 epitheted1896 adj.1903 jiggering1903 adjectival1907 jeezly1908 blerry1920 bluggy1921 somethinged1922 socking1941 bleeping1957 naffing1959 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > thin and shrill sound > bleep or pip pip-pip1909 meep1927 beep-beep1929 pip1929 bleep1953 bleeping1957 peep1957 wheep1984 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > thin and shrill > bleep or pip pipping1923 bleeping1957 beeping1958 beeped1962 1957 Observer 13 Oct. 12/3 The suggestion has been that most of the weight comes from batteries to power the bleeping radio transmitters. 1966 New Scientist 24 Feb. 497/1 The noctule gives a strong response..with a slow and rather deliberate liquid ‘bleeping’ note. 1968 B. Norman Hounds of Sparta xvii. 187 The bleeping grew fainter or stronger depending on his position. 1983 Washington Post 6 Feb. (Mag. section) 37/1 The whole bleeping menagerie of cathode critters. bleeped adj. /bliːpt/ alerted by bleeper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > paging > [adjective] > paged bleeped1982 1982 Financial Times 1 Nov. 16/2 The systems could..tell the selectively ‘bleeped’ pager-wearer to..call the Pabx operator. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1953v.1957
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