a recording, as of an electronic tone, over a segment of a soundtrack, as for covering an expletive
a word substituted as a euphemism for such an expletive, vulgar or taboo word, etc.
Origin:
echoic
intransitive verb
beep
transitive verb
to censor (something said), as in a telecast, by substituting a beep
interjection
used to suggest the sound of the beep: used esp. to substitute for an expletive spoken in a broadcast or telecast
See bleep in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
verbbleeped, bleep·ing, bleeps verb, intransitive
To emit a bleep or bleeps.
verb, transitive
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.