/t͡ʃiːp/
- Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
“[…] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]”
- To express in a chirping tone.
“O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.”
- A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
- A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound
“The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.”
- The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
Formscheeps(present, singular, third-person) · cheeping(participle, present) · cheeped(participle, past) · cheeped(past) · cheeps(plural)