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bleep

 (blēp)
n.
A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
v. bleeped, bleep·ing, bleeps
v.intr.
To emit a bleep or bleeps.
v.tr.
To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound: The station bleeped out the expletives from the taped interview.
[Imitative.]
bleep′er n.
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bleeper

(ˈbliːpə)
n
(Communications & Information) a small portable radio receiver, carried esp by doctors, that sounds a coded bleeping signal to call the carrier. Also called: bleep
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Translations

bleeper

[ˈbliːpəʳ] N (= pager) → busca m inv, buscapersonas m inv
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bleeper

[ˈbliːpər] n [doctor] → bip m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bleeper

n → Funkrufempfänger m, → Piepser m (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bleeper

[ˈbliːpəʳ] n (of doctor) → cercapersone m inv
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