Slang dictionary
meep
[ meep ]
What does听尘别别辫听mean?
Meep, an imitation of a high-pitched noise, often expresses a meek surprise or cutesy awkwardness. The word can also convey a great range of other emotions, from excitement to boredom.
Where does meep come from?
Recorded as early as the 1920s, meep first appeared as a word imitating a short, high-pitched sound, such as a small animal or alarm makes.
While often rendered as beep beep, meep actually better represents the chipper, car horn-like sound made by the Warner Bros. cartoon character Road Runner, who debuted in 1949.
Meep is also the sole vocabulary of Beaker, the Muppet lab assistant听who first appeared on The Muppet Show in 1977. He uses different intonations of meep听辞谤 尘别别听to express his thoughts and feelings, usually sadness or surprise, about Dr. Honeydew’s crazy antics.
In 2009, students at Danvers High School in Danvers, Mass., were using meep as a humorous nonsense word so frequently and disruptively that the school for a time banned it.
In the 2010s, the TV show American Horror Story featured the freak show character听Meep, who only communicates in meeps, as an apparent homage to Beaker. Another homage seems to come from SpongeBob SquarePants, which, in 1999, first featured the tall, dorky Anchovies characters who mostly only say听meep.
The Road Runner and Beaker both became icons in popular culture, which likely helped inspire听meep‘s use to express any number of emotions.听The Road Runner’s more taunting 尘别别辫听lends the term use as a cheerful interjection while Beaker’s more alarmed听meep lends it to expressions of mild awkwardness.
Happy birthday mas馃お have an awesome day!鉂わ笍鉂わ笍 馃檪馃檪 meep.
— e r i k a (@erikkagreen)
In 2016, an app named 惭别别辫!听launched.听It reads news articles aloud to users, and the name is an apparent reference to the audio nature of the program.
In 2018, pop star Selena Gomez caused a meep-roar after saying听meep in a video while getting her makeup done. We’re not really sure why the internet freaked out over it, but many did.
Examples of meep
Who uses meep?
The expressive range of meep is impressive. Some use it to express an adorable smallness.
Meep.
— Sidka (@traposmeg)
Meep can also express a lovable haplessness or meekness, like when Beaker or the Anchovies use it.
Occasionally, meep is used like bleep or beep as a playful euphemism for a swear word.
Meep still sees plenty of use in allusion to Beaker or the Road Runner, where听meep meep can be a colloquial shorthand for “speed.”
Good gym rats…meep meep meep, meep
— T脜NK 馃 (@TANK_Lifts47)
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