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bleep out

slang To censor audio by playing a high-pitched "bleep" sound over it, as is often done with expletives. A noun or pronoun can be used between "bleep" and "out." When I heard the replay of that interview on the radio, they had bleeped everything out, so I still don't know what the celebrity said that was so offensive. Man, you can't curse on here—this is a live show, and we can't bleep you out! The awards show airs on a delay in case they have to bleep out parts of any speeches.
See also: out
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bleep something out

to replace a word or phrase in a radio or television broadcast with some sort of covering tone. (This is sometimes done to prevent a taboo word or other information from being broadcast.) He tried to say the word on television, but they bleeped it out. They tried to bleep out the whole sentence.
See also: out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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