tweep

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chirp or beep.
    — The readers are Star Trek cast members, and the sound is enhanced with authentic, Enterprise-sounding beeps and tweeps.
  2. A user of the Twitter microblogging service. Internet,slang
    — As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]
  3. A Twitter employee. slang
    — “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.
动词 v.
  1. To chirp or beep.
    — A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.
  2. To kill; to assassinate. US,euphemistic
    — Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.

词形变化

tweeps plural tweeps present,singular,third-person tweeping participle,present tweeped participle,past tweeped past tweeps present,singular,third-person tweeping participle,present tweeped participle,past tweeped past tweeps plural tweeple plural

词源

词源 1
Onomatopoeic.
词源 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.
词源 3
Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”).
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