tweep

Etymology

Definitions

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.
   • Many of the neighboring birds had already begun their preliminary chirps, sending out those quirky little twits and tweeps that announce their presence […]
2. 2

   To chirp or beep.

   • A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
   • No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.
3. 3

   To kill

   To kill; to assassinate.

   • Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.
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   1. 4

      A user of the Twitter microblogging service.

      • As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]
   2. 5

      A Twitter employee.

      • “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.

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