to bleep
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4.8
- verb
- /bliːp/
:
silenciar con un pitido
- I just said his name, bleep his name out because please bleep his name out.
- bleep a word
- bleep all expletives
- bleep the F-word
And and we can bleep them if need be.
- And and we can bleep them if need be.
- So this is a whole bunch of slacks of messages asking about words We need to bleep.
- But if somebody, if I was walking down the street and somebody yelled or whatever, like to me it says way more about oh, now we're going to bleep.
- And I'll bleep his name, but Stephen Dean went with cannabis shoved up his ass.
Examples
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Ad campaigns use profanity bleeped out to be funny (Frank's Red Hot).
Blog text (25) -
MTV bleeps out the last word.
Fiction book (2002) -
I wanted to bleep that out, bleep that out.
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We can bleep it out.
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And they had to bleep part of it because you can't say that word on TV anymore.
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I think we've only had to bleep out something once the entire year that we've been on the air.
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They didn't even bleep it.
Fiction book (1993) -
First of all, I'm bleeping out your profanity.
Blog text (3) -
You are bleeping idiots.
Blog text (24) -
The television network decided to bleep the profanity during the live broadcast.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb bleep (to censor) comes from using that same short 'beep' sound to cover a spoken word on TV or radio. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the small electronic noise hiding the bad word, which is why broadcasters bleep swear words.