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bleep | bleen |

As a noun bleep

is a brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.

As a verb bleep

is to emit one or more bleeps.

As an adjective bleen is

of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.

bleep

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brief high-pitched sound, as from some electronic device.
  • (euphemistic) Something named by an explicit noun in the original, unedited version of the containing sentence.
  • What the bleep are you doing?
  • (music, slang, uncountable) A broad genre of electronic music with goth and industrial influences, as opposed to traditional gothic rock.
  • * 2005 , "Jennie Kermode", What is gothic?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.gothic )
  • See, there are a huge number of people in this city who look like goths and talk the talk and claim to enjoy much of the same music I do, so it confuses me somewhat that the clubs all play bleep . I would have thought there would be enough people to make something else work.
  • * 2005 , "oldgoth", Theaving(SIC) Goths'' (on newsgroup ''uk.people.gothic )
  • A number of nights now steer away from the EBM of yesteryear. The scene is alive and kicking with plenty of new bands that aren't reliant on synths. All you have to do is look. At InsanitoriuM we have a large, young, crowd that would up and leave if we started playing bleep at them, and we're not alone.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To emit one or more bleeps.
  • To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps.
  • Derived terms

    * bleeper * bleep out * bleepy

    bleen

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (label) Of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.
  • See also

    * grue * ----