Pronunciation Noun
beep (plural beeps)
- The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
- A short, electronically produced tone.
- (electronically produced) bleep; see also Thesaurus:beep
- Russian: гудо́к
beep (beeps, present participle beeping; past and past participle beeped)
- (transitive) To sound (something that makes a beep).
- The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
- (transitive, informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
- Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
- (intransitive) To produce a beep.
- (transitive) To contact (someone via) a pager device.
- (transitive) Telephoning a person, but 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.
- (sound (a car horn)) honk, hoot, sound, toot
- (to have intercourse with) sleep with, fuck; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (telephoning) flash
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