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Tweep

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chirp or beep.

    "The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps."

  2. 2
    A user of the Twitter microblogging service. Internet, slang

    "As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]"

  3. 3
    A person using Twitter wordnet
  4. 4
    A Twitter employee. slang

    "“I recognize this is a crazy moment where Tweeps are losing access and the layoff is in progress,” she wrote on Slack, adding a broken heart emoji and a link to a video conferencing room, according to messages viewed by The Times."

Verb
  1. 1
    To chirp or beep.

    "A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail."

  2. 2
    To kill; to assassinate. US, euphemistic

    "Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 3

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

Etymology 4

Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”).

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