Eep

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ip/

Full definition of eep

Interjection

1. (onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
• 1993 The Simpsons, Bart's Inner Child http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F05.htmlHot-dog vendor: “Get him!”Bart: “Eep.”
• 2000, Adam Cadre, Ready, Okay!Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.“Eep,” I said.
• 2000, John Palisano, Journey Through Time http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0738826049&id=1LFb_NU01VgC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22eep+*+said%22&sig=UC6HjuFNxoIPrw7f1drNJwIerccOn the opposite side a bottle crashed. Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head. “Eep,” she said, breathed, and nearly screamed.

Noun

1. A short scream or yelp.
• 1853, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, and John Holmes Agnew (eds.), , page 460,"Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."
• 1962, Jet Screamer, The Jetsons, "Eep opp ork ah ah! And that means 'I love you'!" (but, according to Elroy Jetson in the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", he says Judy Jetson wrote it for him, "eep opp ork ah-ah" means "meet me tonight")http://www.tvacres.com/music_songs_jetsons.htm (Note: this reference is incorrect.)
• 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3oShe encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep.”

Verb

1. To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
• 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3oNow there are fulfilled women happily “eeping” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.
• 2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin,” in Athletic Shorts http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0060507837&id=BhSYywd2SqMC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22he+eeps%22&sig=Lp5m2rWEorvsRu5gjHTu4R1bfV4Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.
• 2003, John Treadwell Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0811839907&id=OdDs928s-PwC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=%22she+eeped%22&sig=mtJl10KCTmZxASjLdTwzUg_V3a0Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped, dropped my arm, and fled for her life.

Anagrams

• pee, p'ee