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beeper
[ bee-per ]
noun
- a device that connects into a telephone circuit and transmits a periodic signal as an indication that the conversation over the circuit is being recorded.
- a similar device attached to a free-ranging animal as an aid to learning its habits; biotelemeter.
- Also called pager. a pocket-size electronic device whose signal notifies a person of an important message, sometimes displaying the telephone number to be called.
Example Sentences
Like, at some point, I wore a beeper that wasn鈥檛 even working just because it was part of my look.
After Hasan weighed in, Girdusky said, 鈥淚 hope your beeper doesn鈥檛 go off鈥 鈥 a reference to the use of mobile communications devices to kill members of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Sept. 17.
鈥淚 keep a beeper with me at all times,鈥 Brown said the day Herzog resigned.
He kept a photo of tech billionaire Bill Gates鈥 mansion in his wallet and hustled to make money by selling golf balls he retrieved from a nearby course and pagers and beepers at marked-up prices.
In college, I wrote a term paper exploring their allure and even interviewed a man who charged a dollar a month to alert subscribers via beeper whenever one started.
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