Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a euph. substitute for various taboo terms, e.g. shit n. (1a) in phr. beat the bleep out of; also as v.

1970		Look 10 Mar. 58: Anybody [on the team] who talked to a reporter could go on Durocher’s bleep list.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 95: [Bleep] ’em! Maybe I don’t know apples from oranges, but I can assure you I know my way around a rivet gun.
1999		Reuters 28 Oct. n.p.: The device has even surfaced in ads, with a boy and girl exchanging censored epithets (‘mother-bleep,’ ‘bleep-you,’ ‘bleep-hole,’ etc.) in a soap commercial aired in January.
2005		B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 157: ‘N.W.A. did entire clean albums, but I [i.e. Ice-T]thought that was selling out. C’mon, they can bleep that shit’.
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] He commanded everyone [...] to get the bleep out of his way.

2. (N.Z. prison) a lair.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 20/1: bleep n. a liar.