tweep

plural tweeps

1. A chirp or beep.

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

   1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside, →ISBN, page 321

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

   2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press, →ISBN, page 106

present singular third person tweeps · participle present tweeping · participle past tweeped · past tweeped

1. To chirp or beep.

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

   1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN

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   No ubiquitous telephones, no fax machines or computers burping and tweeping and chirping their electronic chirps.

   1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard, →ISBN, page 103

present singular third person tweeps · participle present tweeping · participle past tweeped · past tweeped

1. USeuphemisticespionageTo kill; to assassinate.

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

   1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley, →ISBN

plural tweeps · plural tweeple

1. InternetslangA user of the Twitter microblogging service.

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

   2011, David Javerbaum (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 305

   Synonyms: tweeter, twitterer

2. slangA 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.

   2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, quoting Esther Crawford, “Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023