bleep something out

bleep something out
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.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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