Made a high-pitched electronic sound; censored out a word or phrase by replacing it with a bleep sound.
From bleep (origin uncertain, possibly onomatopoetic) + -ed (past tense). The word 'bleep' became common only in the 20th century with electronic sound technology, particularly in radio and television.
The 'bleep' as a censoring tool became famous on television, especially for hiding profanity. Ironically, audiences often find the bleep MORE noticeable than the original word would have been—psychologists call this the 'Streisand Effect' of audio censoring.
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