Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A short, electronically produced tone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: bleep
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noun
A message sent to a pager device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: bell
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A 1/2-ton general purpose military light truck
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated, slang
Qualifier: World War II
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A 3/4-ton general purpose military medium truck
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, broadly, dated, slang
Qualifier: World War II
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Especially, the Dodge WC series U.S. Army WWII military trucks, in 1/2-ton 3/4-ton 1-ton variants
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated, slang
Qualifier: World War II
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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verb
To produce a beep sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Synonyms: honk, hoot, toot
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, informal, transitive
Synonyms: Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap
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verb
To contact (someone) via a pager device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: flash
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a short high tone produced as a signal or warning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bleep
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound
verb
call, summon, or alert with a beeper
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: call, send for
verb
make a loud noise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: honk, blare, claxon, toot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sound, go
Narrower terms: tootle
History
Onomatopoeic.
Blend of big + jeep. From being bigger versions of the general purpose superlight truck, the Willys MB "Jeep".
Across languages
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
