Boop

//buːp// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A low-pitched beeping sound.

    "When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever."

  2. 2
    A gentle or playful tap or strike, especially on the nose. colloquial

    "“Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose! Boop, on the nose!” “He's bypassing our shields. We can't take many more boops.” “Thanks to Father giving me full access to Starfleet data systems, I know all possible shield frequencies. Boop!”"

Verb
  1. 1
    To produce a low-pitched beeping sound. intransitive

    "The music on “LP” is almost entirely unnatural, booping and puffing, buzzing and ticking in tones no acoustic instrument would make."

  2. 2
    To strike gently or playfully; to bop (especially on the nose). colloquial, transitive

    "He spun around and booped me on the nose."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.

Synonyms

All synonyms
beepbipbop

Example

More examples

"Boop! Got you on your nose. You'll have to be faster than that."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Imitative; compare beep.

Etymology 2

Altered form of German Bub.

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