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# bleeping

phrase (adjective, adverb; verb form: bleep, bleeps, bleeped, bleeping)

«bleeping» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (euphemism) a word used instead of a swear word: «that bleeping dog». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#m1)
2. (literal) making short high sounds, like a machine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#m2)

### In the lessons

All regions; TV, chat, comedy; replaces swearing, from the bleep sound that covers swear words on TV.

### Examples

- Where are my bleeping keys? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x1)
- The bleeping printer is broken again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x2)
- The machine kept bleeping all night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x3)
- TV bleeps out swear words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x4)
- Joke: «Bleeping heck!» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x5)
- Rough talk: «Shut the bleeping door!» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x6)

### Note

Stands for a swear word. Polite substitute. Literal sense: the beep of machines.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bleeping» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bleeping» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bleeping.html) on Mova free.