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[UK] 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.
at bleep, n.
[UK] Reuters 28 Oct. n.p.: Actor Mark Harmon’s use of the phrase ‘s–-- happens’ was believed to be the first scripted, uncensored utterance of the ‘s’ word on a broadcast network series in prime time.
at shit happens under shit, n.
[UK] Reuters 28 Oct. n.p.: Actor Mark Harmon’s use of the phrase ‘s––– happens’ was believed to be the first scripted, uncensored utterance of the ‘s’ word on a broadcast network series in prime time [...] Experts call it the latest example of network TV’s growing flirtation with profanity, the newest wrinkle of which is the routine use of bleeped-out but clearly recognisable expletives (including the ‘F’ word) on new Fox network comedy ‘Action.’.
at -word, sfx
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