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# bleeping

«bleeping» in Mova's school dictionary: **a word used instead of a swear word: «that bleeping dog»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

phrase (adjective, adverb; verb form: bleep, bleeps, bleeped, bleeping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (euphemism) a word used instead of a swear word: «that bleeping dog». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#m1)

2) (literal) making short high sounds, like a machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

All regions; TV, chat, comedy; replaces swearing, from the bleep sound that covers swear words on TV.

### examples

- Where are my bleeping keys? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x1)
- The bleeping printer is broken again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x2)
- The machine kept bleeping all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x3)
- TV bleeps out swear words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x4)
- Joke: «Bleeping heck!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x5)
- Rough talk: «Shut the bleeping door!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/#x6)

### note

Stands for a swear word. Polite substitute. Literal sense: the beep of machines.

### In the corpora

- ["Bleeping" stands for any swear word, as if the word had been covered by a beep on TV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bleeping» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleeping/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.