Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - bleep

~1 n a high electronic sound  (The shrill bleep of the telephone woke him up.) ~2 v 1 to make a high electronic sound  (The computer will bleep when it has completed the search.) 2 BrE informal to let someone know, through their bleeper, that you want them to telephone you 3 also bleep out to prevent an offensive word being heard on television or the radio by making a high electronic sound  (All the swear words had been bleeped out.)