noun
- plural of beeper; small electronic devices that receive and display short messages or emit beeping sounds to alert the user
Usage: often dated; largely replaced by cell phones
Examples
- Doctors in the 1990s carried beepers so the hospital could reach them quickly.
- The restaurant gave us beepers that would buzz when our table was ready.
- Emergency workers relied on beepers before cell phones became widespread.
- She clipped the beeper to her belt and waited for it to go off.
- The beepers started going off all at once during the crisis.
- Most beepers could only display numbers, not full text messages.