Bleeper
noun
a small portable radio receiver, carried esp by doctors, that sounds a coded bleeping signal to call the carrier Also called bleep
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(used as a substitute word for one regarded as objectionable): Get that bleeping cat out of here! a brief, constant beeping sound, usually of a high pitch and generated by an electronic device. such an electronic sound used to replace a censored word or phrase, as on a television broadcast. Also, blip. (used as a […]
- Blellum
an idle, indiscreet talker. Historical Examples Letters of Samuel Rutherford Samuel Rutherford
- Blemish
to destroy or diminish the perfection of: The book is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions. a mark that detracts from appearance, as a pimple or a scar. a defect or flaw; stain; blight: a blemish on his record. Contemporary Examples Jimmy Connors Memoir Shows He Wasn’t Misunderstood, He Was Just a Jerk James Zug […]
- Blemished
to destroy or diminish the perfection of: The book is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions. a mark that detracts from appearance, as a pimple or a scar. a defect or flaw; stain; blight: a blemish on his record. Historical Examples A Pasteboard Crown Clara Morris The Fables of Phdrus Phaedrus Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary […]
- Blench
to shrink; flinch; quail: an unsteady eye that blenched under another’s gaze. to make or become pale or white; blanch. Historical Examples The Danish History, Books I-IX Saxo Grammaticus (“Saxo the Learned”) T. Tembarom Frances Hodgson Burnett Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Mark Twain Milton’s Comus John Milton The Queen of the Savannah Gustave […]