# beep
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bēp, IPA: /biːp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːp

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how old is this word?”)

#### Noun

beep (plural beeps)
* The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beep
* A short, electronically produced tone.
    Synonym: bleep
* A message sent to a pager device.
** 1992, Ice Cube (lyrics and music), “It Was A Good Day”, in The Predator:I got a beep from Kym, and she can fuck all night.
* (computing) Synonym of bell (“bell character”).

##### Derived terms

* beep out
* beep test
* beepy
* roger beep

##### Translations
#### Verb

beep (third-person singular simple present beeps, present participle beeping, simple past and past participle beeped)
* (intransitive, transitive) To produce a beep sound.
    Synonyms: honk, hoot, toot
    Coordinate terms: boop, bop
    The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
* (transitive, informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with (someone), referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
    Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
* (transitive) To contact (someone) via a pager device.
** 1981, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (U.S.), volume 253, page 1060:Burkat told him on the evening of Sunday, July 1, that Kritch “would have to terminate Mr. Waugaman on Monday when he came in, for not answering the beeper.” […] However, when considered in light of […] Justak’s assertion in Waugaman’s termination notice that Respondent had unsuccessfully tried to “beep” him at 6 p.m. […]
** 2013, Tonshea Carroll Moore, Lanette Zavala, Wedding Vows Under Fire‎, page 138:His first notion was to call her on her mobile phone device. After all, she had neither called nor beeped him to tell him any plans in advance.
* (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
    Synonym: flash
    Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.
** 2008, Deborah Eden, The Destroyer‎, page 157:He should have been here at two-fifteen the way he drove. I beeped him, but he didn't ring back.

##### Derived terms

* beeper

##### Translations
#### See also

* pip

### Etymology 2

Blend of big +‎ jeep. From being bigger versions of the general purpose superlight truck, the Willys MB "Jeep".

#### Noun

beep (plural beeps)
* (US, military, slang, dated, World War II) A 1/2-ton general purpose military light truck
* (US, military, slang, dated, World War II, by extension) A 3/4-ton general purpose military medium truck
* (US, military, slang, dated, World War II) Especially, the Dodge WC series U.S. Army WWII military trucks, in 1/2-ton 3/4-ton 1-ton variants

##### Coordinate terms

* duck
* jeep
* seep

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English beep.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bip/

### Noun

beep n (plural beep-uri)
* beep

#### Declension
### References

* beep in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)