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: 
At first I thought it might have been an expletive that was deleted.

If the sentence had been 

> 
> Your car has been bleeping stolen
> 
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> 

I would have interpreted that as a placeholder for a swear word.

But in context it is clear he is talking about a [car remote keyless system](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_keyless_system). Typically these make a bleeping sound indicating that the door was locked/unlocked successfully.
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:

> 
> "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.

> 
> "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.

> 
> "…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.