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bleep out

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bleep something out
to replace a word or phrase in a radio or television broadcast with some sort of covering tone. (This is sometimes done to prevent a taboo word or other information from being broadcast.) He tried to say the word on television, but they bleeped it out. They tried to bleep out the whole sentence.
See also: out


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Clear Channel is deciding that for its own marketing strategy or corporate ideology that it wants to bleep out a word, and therefore it's not a First Amendment issue.
Loh said that after taping the monologue, she left instructions with her engineer Mario Diaz - a station employee - to bleep out the expletive.
 
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