/gweep/ To hack, usually at night, or one who does so.At WPI, from 1977 onward, gweeps could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20.The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and is still alive in late 1991."I' m going to go gweep for a while.See you in the morning.""I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.""Gweep" originated as an onomatopeiac term, evoking the sound of the (once-ubiquitous) Hazeltine 9000 terminals'bell on WPI campus.A gweep is one step above a fweep.[Jargon File](1995-01-31)