noun, verb
noun a short high sound such as that made by a car horn or by electronic equipment:
The taxi gave a beep as it drew up to the house. * Please leave your message after the beep and we'll call you back.
Part of speech: verb
1 [V] (of an electronic machine) to make a short high sound:
The microwave beeps to let you know when it has finished.
2 when a car horn, etc. beeps or when you beep it, it makes a short noise:
[V] The car behind started beeping at us. * [VN] He beeped his horn at the cyclist.
3 [VN] (AmE) = BLEEP
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for beep is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is beep a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, beep is tagged as verb.
Does beep appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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