A bleep censor is the replacement of a profanity and classified information with a bleep sound, usually a 1-kilohertz sine wave. It is used on public television and radio.
Censor bars may be used along with the bleeps to prevent the audience from lip reading the swearer's words.
The seven dirty words are seven English-language profanities that the American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue. The words, in th
Bleep censor
…Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, an American talk show that, in 2008, gained notoriety for using a variation of the bleep censor dubbed a "bleep photo" Seven dirty words…
A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words