See tweep in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "“I recognize this is a crazy moment where Tweeps are losing access and the layoff is in progress,” she wrote on Slack, adding a broken heart emoji and a link to a video conferencing room, according to messages viewed by The Times.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A Twitter employee."
],
"links": [
[
"Twitter",
"Twitter"
],
[
"employee",
"employee"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A Twitter employee."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-tweep.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/En-au-tweep.ogg/En-au-tweep.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/En-au-tweep.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːp"
}
],
"word": "tweep"
}
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