Tweep
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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 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 A person using Twitter wordnet
- 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."
- 1 To chirp or beep.
"A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail."
- 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."
Synonyms
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More examples"The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps."
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
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.
Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.