bleeping

Masking foul language

Bleeping is a euphemism for fucking or another profanity, originally from the bleep sound used to censor offensive words in broadcasts: What the bleeping hell is going on?

The word lets speakers convey intensity while maintaining plausible deniability about what they really mean.

As an adjective, it works like any profane intensifier: I can't find my bleeping keys.

euphemism

freaking

Mild intensifying expletive

effing · dang · darn · heck · shoot · substitute · minced · placeholder · frustration · annoying

censorship

expletive

Profane emotional utterance

sanitize · mute · silence · bowdlerize · expurgate · suppress · edit · obscure · censor · moderate

electronic

beep

Short electronic tone

  • toneQuality of sound
  • pulseArterial blood throb
  • chirpShort, high avian sound

boop · alert · notification · chime · ping · signal · alarm · warning · siren · horn

Categories
Opposites
audio censorship

bleepinguncensored

Without removed content

unedited · explicit · unexpurgated · raw · uncut

sound type

bleepingsilent

Producing no sound

quiet · continuous · steady · droning · humming

sound emission

bleepingsilent

Producing no sound

mute · quiet · soundless · noiseless · hushed

Family

beeper, bleep, bleeped, bleeps, bleeper

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G