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Revision as of 11:40, 22 February 2006 by William Allen Simpson (talk | contribs) (revert sections with recent minor additions)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)EEP is a three-letter acronym or initialism for:
- Early Entrance Program (CSU)
- Equivalence principle, also known as the "Einstein Equivalence Principle"
- Enbridge Energy Partners, companies traded on the NYSE
- Engineered & Environmental Products, "a distributor of highly engineered industrial products"
- European Education Partnership, "industry-education partnership helping policy-makers and educators achieve sustainable use of new technologies and digital media to benefit learning for all"
- European endangered species programme
- European Environmental Press, "a Europe-wide association of sixteen environmental magazines"
- Executive Excellence Publishing, "a source of knowledge on personal and organizational leadership development"
Expressions
Eep as an expression (facial, emotional), interjection, or emotional reaction has made its way into pop culture, and is used to express fear/fright, shock, and/or surprise.
Sounds
Eep is an onomatopoeia sound most commonly associated with the Apple Macintosh computer system alert sound that was introduced with the System 7 Mac OS, but removed in OS 9. (sound)
Examples in pop culture
- Jetsons (TV cartoon) - "Eep, opp, ork, ah-ah" song
- Road Runner (TV cartoon character) - similar to his "meep-meep" sound
- Man Your Spacesuits (drinking game) - a noise
- Escape from Monkey Island (computer game) - 1 of 4 basic monkey-words: "eep", "oop", "ack", and "chee"
- Albanian language - "shqip" pronunciation
See also
- Star Control II computer game - Yehat Veep-Neep clan
External links
- The Free Dictionary - Acronyms - more EEP acronyms (14)
- Acronym Attic - still more EEP acronyms (90 but some duplicates from last site)
- History of the Meep: funny webpage that includes "eep"
- Urban Dictionary Eep entry
- Wild Eep Foundation - "strives for nothing less than the prevalence and platform independence of the Wild Eep"
- Wiki Cities Wild Eep article
- World of Awe - Music - Eep - odd "song" that describes the operation of Eep
- Google "eep" search results