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Word: beeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning out racy epithets with an electronic beeper signal. Said Schearer: "The Army-McCarthy hearings had its 'Point of Order' slogan. All we've been able to come up with in this one is 'Son of a beep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: Morality Play | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Yeah. That dirty, rotten son of a beep has been here for three days; nobody knows where to contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...That dirty, rotten son of a beep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Sharks | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Recorded end to end, all of the gags about old British movies on U.S. television would be no more than a beep compared to the clamor going on last week about U.S. shows on British TV. "Is BBC short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Invasion by Film | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...undresses behind a bush. He watches. So does the camera. Either the bush has too little or Sophia has too much upholstery. Moments later she and the driver are frolicking in the sand together, and as his blood mounts-beep! The emergency horn informs him that her two confederates are stealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

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