eep

1. onomatopoeicAn expression of surprise or dismay.

   Hot-dog vendor: "Get him!" Bart: "Eep."

   1993, “Bart's Inner Child”, in The Simpsons

   2 more examples

   Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands. "Eep," I said.

   2000, Adam Cadre, Ready, Okay!, New York: Harper Collins, →ISBN, →OCLC

   On the opposite side a bottle crashed. Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head. “Eep,” she said, breathed, and nearly screamed.

   2000, John Palisano, Journey Through Time, Authorhouse, →ISBN, page 9

   Synonyms: wow, yikes, wow

plural eeps

1. A short scream or yelp.

   She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep.”

   2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy, Red Wheel, →ISBN, page 29

   1 more example

   "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."

   1853, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, editors, The Knickerbocker, page 460

present singular third person eeps · participle present eeping · participle past eeped · past eeped

1. To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.

   Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.

   2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy, Red Wheel, →ISBN, page 29

   2 more examples

   Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.

   2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin”, in Athletic Shorts, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 75

   Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped, dropped my arm, and fled for her life.

   2003, John Treadwell Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly, →ISBN, page 160

plural eeps

1. InternetcountablehumorousuncountableSleep.

present singular third person eeps · participle present eeping · participle past eeped · past eeped · participle past ept · past ept

1. InternethumorousTo sleep.