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tweep¹

Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic.

noun tweeps

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

verb tweeps · tweeping · tweeped

  1. To chirp or beep. A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.

tweep²

Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

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 tweeps · tweeping · tweeped

  1. US, euphemistic To kill; to assassinate. Robert Maheu, tough, astute, dynamic, was the perfect professional to implement the CIA scheme to tweep Fidel Castro.

tweep³

Rhymes with -iːp

Where it comes from

Blend of Twitter + peep (“person”).

noun tweeps · tweeple

  1. Internet, slang A user of the Twitter microblogging service. As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]

    Similar: tweeter, twitterer

  2. slang A Twitter employee. “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.

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@misc{tweep_2026,
  title = {tweep},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tweep},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}