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beep

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //biːp//

The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.

noun

  1. 1

    The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.

  2. 2

    A short, electronically produced tone.

  3. 3

    A message sent to a pager device.

    I got a beep from Kim, and she can fuck all night

  4. 4

    Synonym of bell (“bell character”).

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

verb

  1. 1

    To produce a beep sound.

    The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.

  2. 2

    informalTo have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts.

    Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.

  3. 3

    To contact (someone) via a pager device.

    Burkat told him on the evening of Sunday, July 1, that Kritch “would have to terminate Mr. Waugaman on Monday when he came in, for not answering the beeper.” […] However, when considered in light of[…] Justak’s assertion in Waugaman’s termination notice that Respondent had unsuccessfully tried to “beep” him at 6 p.m.[…]

    His first notion was to call her on her mobile phone device. After all, she had neither called nor beeped him to tell him any plans in advance.

  4. 4

    To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

    Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.

    He should have been here at two-fifteen the way he drove. I beeped him, but he didn't ring back.

noun

  1. 1

    datedA 1/2-ton general purpose military light truck

  2. 2

    datedA 3/4-ton general purpose military medium truck

  3. 3

    datedEspecially, the Dodge WC series U.S. Army WWII military trucks, in 1/2-ton 3/4-ton 1-ton variants

Etymology

Blend of big + jeep. From being bigger versions of the general purpose superlight truck, the Willys MB "Jeep".

Forms

plural
beeps
past tense
beeped
past participle
beeped
present participle
beeping
third person singular
beeps
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).