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beep

[beep]
–noun
1. a short, relatively high-pitched tone produced by a horn, electronic device, or the like as a signal, summons, or warning.
2. one of the periodic signals sounded by a beeper.
–verb (used without object)
3. to make or emit such a sound: When the timer beeps, take the cake out of the oven.
–verb (used with object)
4. to sound (a horn, warning signal, etc.): impatient drivers beeping their horns.
5. to announce, warn, summon, etc., by beeping: The doctor was beeped to call the hospital.

Origin:
1925–30; imit.
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beep   (bēp)   
n.  A sound or a signal, as from a horn or an electronic device.
v.   beeped, beep·ing, beeps

v.   intr.
To make a beep.
v.   tr.
  1. To cause to make a beep.

  2. To call, summon, or warn by means of a beeper.


[Imitative.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

beep 
1929, imitative of automobile horns. Beeper "device that emits beeps" is from 1946.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

beep
bell

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
beep
borough president
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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