different between gweep vs tweep

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

gweep (plural gweeps)

1. (dated, computing, slang) A hacker on early minicomputers

Related terms

• fweep

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps)

1. A chirp or beep.
   • 1995, John Wynne, The Listener's Guide to Audio Books: Reviews, Recommendations, and Listings for More Than 2,000 Titles, Fireside (1995), ?ISBN, page 321:

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

   • 2008, Eric W. Bragg, The Midnight Blade of Sonic Honey, Oyster Moon Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 106:

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

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Verb

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

1. To chirp or beep.
   • 1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers (1996), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

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

   • 1999, Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes: A Novel of Family, Bard (1999), ?ISBN, page 103:

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

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Etymology 2

From TWEP, acronym of terminate with extreme prejudice, a US military intelligence and CIA euphemism for "kill, assassinate" that was first used in the 1960s.

Verb

tweep (third-person singular simple present tweeps, present participle tweeping, simple past and past participle tweeped)

1. (US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
   • 1997, William B. Breuer, Vendetta!: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers, John Wiley (1997), ?ISBN:

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

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Etymology 3

Blend of Twitter +? peep (“person”).

Noun

tweep (plural tweeps or tweeple)

1. (Internet, slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tweep.

   Synonyms: Twitter user, Twitter blogger, tweeter, twitterer

Anagrams

• pewet, wepte