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boop
boop
English
Noun
boop (plural boops)
- A low-pitched beeping sound.
- 1989, Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
- 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.
- 2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)
- Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.
- 1989, Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
Verb
boop (third-person singular simple present boops, present participle booping, simple past and past participle booped)
- (intransitive) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
- (transitive, colloquial) To strike gently or playfully; to bop.
- 2013, Kate Danley, Maggie on the Bounty
- He spun around and booped me on the nose.
- 2013, Kate Danley, Maggie on the Bounty