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tweep

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps)

A chirp or beep.
- 1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside (1995), ISBN 0684802392, page 321 ↗:
  The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps.
- 2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press (2008), ISBN 9781435714281, page 106 ↗:
  Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]

Verb

tweep (tweeps, present participle tweeping; past and past participle tweeped)

To chirp or beep.
- 1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers (1996), ISBN 9780764201929, unnumbered page ↗:
  A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
- 1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard (1999), ISBN 9780380977673, page 103:
  No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.

Verb

tweep (tweeps, present participle tweeping; past and past participle tweeped)

(US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
- 1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley (1997), ISBN 9780471184560:
  Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps)

(Internet, slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service.
- 2011, David Javerbaum (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9781451640182, page 305 ↗:
  As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]

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