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a short, relatively high-pitched tone produced by a horn, electronic device, or the like as a signal, summons, or warning.
one of the periodic signals sounded by a beeper.
to make or emit such a sound:
When the timer beeps, take the cake out of the oven.
to sound (a horn, warning signal, etc.):
impatient drivers beeping their horns.
to announce, warn, summon, etc., by beeping:
The doctor was beeped to call the hospital.
Contemporary Examples

When the battery gets low, they beep a lot, which causes people to disconnect them.
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Historical Examples

When Ives gives you the beep, jump out, run around the bows and plant your back against the hull directly opposite the port.
Breaking Point James E. Gunn

I have beep steamboating forty years, and I know a little something about it.
Blow The Man Down Holman Day

A proposal so atrocious had beep made, in the case of little William, at the very outset, and had met with but slight opposition.
The Ocean Waifs Mayne Reid

The scanner began to beep and Roger turned his attention to the screen.
Sabotage in Space Carey Rockwell

Now Beryl should have beep upstairs marking the new linen and she should93 not be singing as though she owned the whole world.
Red-Robin Jane Abbott

The automatic finder searched around for the Ravenhurst tickler signal, found it, and sent out a beep along the same channel.
A Spaceship Named McGuire Gordon Randall Garrett

Adonis and all the other Sun lords were supposed to have beep born in a cave on 25th December.
Archaic England Harold Bayley

He looks as if he’d like to pinch everybody around, and slap ’em into the cooler, just to beep his hand in.
Endurance Test Alan Douglas

“The beep’s from the North Pole,” the instrument man reported instantly.
Thin Edge Gordon Randall Garrett

noun
a short high-pitched sound, esp one made by the horn of a car, bicycle, etc, or by electronic apparatus
verb
to make or cause to make such a noise
interj.

1927, imitative of automobile horns (originally of the sound of a certain type of automobile horn among several types in use in the years after the klaxon horn was brought into use c.1910). Used as a noun and verb by 1929. Related: Beeped; beeping.

noun

: The car gave a few hearty beeps (1920s+)
A usually high-pitched short burst of sound emitted by an electronic device on a satellite, rocket, telephone answering machine, etc: Please leave your message when you hear the beep (1950s+ Aerospace)

verb

To sound the horn of a car (1920s+)
To notify someone by a beep that attention or action is needed: So I called the doctor and they beeped him and he called me

[1970s+; echoic]

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