Question: > 
> “Imagine trying to **bleep** open your car one day,” says Graham Steel,
>  the boss of Cryptosense, a firm that makes automated security-checking
>  software, “but then you’re told that your car has been locked, and if
>  you want back in you need to send $200 to some shady Russian e-mail
>  address.”
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This sentence is extracted from *The economist*. I looked up the dictionary and found that "bleep" can be used as noun or verb. In this sentence, I think "open" is the verb, then "bleep" should be an adverb to modify "open". But there is not such usage in dictionary. Does "bleep" make sense if it is a noun or a verb in this sentence? and how? 

The whole paragrah is:

> 
> A recent development is “ransomware”, in which malicious programs
>  encrypt documents and photographs, and a victim must pay to have them
>  restored. “Imagine trying to bleep open your car one day,” says Graham
>  Steel, the boss of Cryptosense, a firm that makes automated
>  security-checking software, “but then you’re told that your car has
>  been locked, and if you want back in you need to send $200 to some
>  shady Russian e-mail address.”
> 
> 
>

Answer: 
This is a case of using the *effect* (a noun, in this case the sound) of an action as a verb to describe the action itself.

If you are unfamiliar with the sound heard when unlocking a vehicle, listen to [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m15Fr95s7i8&t=3s) for an example of the bleeping sound.

### Consider other examples such as:

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> "I'll buzz you in" 
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…to describe pressing a button to allow somebody to enter a building — this creates a "buzz"ing sound to indicate to the visitor that the door is now open.

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> "I'll ring you"
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…to describe contacting somebody via telephone — this causes the recipient's telephone to "ring", alerting the recipient that they have a call incoming. 

> 
> "I'll chug a drink"
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…to describe consuming a drink — depending how loudly this is done you may hear a "chug" sound from the throat when swallowing.

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> "…bleep your car open"
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…to describe pressing the "open" button on your keyfob — this causes the car's doors to unlock. To alert you that the car is now locked/unlocked, typically there will be a series of flashes/beeps to indicate that this has happened.
In this case *bleep open* acts like a compound verb, such as the verb *[finger paint](http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/finger%20paint)*.

A compound verb is when a noun is "added" to a verb, so that it becomes part of the verb. Other examples are *sugar coat* and *tap dance*. Many times a hyphen is used when spelling these words: this is to show that the noun/verb compound is being used as **one (compound) word**. And then if they get used a lot they can be spelled with no hyphen or space (*[breastfeed](http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/breastfeed)*). 

So the author could have written *bleep-open*. But it is probably a fairly recent combination, without a lot of usage, and so people don't consider it a true compound word yet.