teep
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teep (plural teeps)
- (science fiction) A telepath.
- 1955, Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery:
- He was conscious that the Directorate's teep Corps was close by; he didn't particularly want his intimate thoughts in the hands of eighty bored telepaths.
- 1997 June 9, Straczynski, Joseph Michael, “The Face of the Enemy”, in Babylon 5, season 4, episode 17, spoken by Number One (Marjorie Monaghan):
- What are you doing, bringing a teep here when we're ready to move?
- 2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft: Ghost—Spectres, →ISBN, page 16:
- She didn't need to be a teep to know what he was thinking.
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teep (comparative more teep, superlative most teep)
- (science fiction) Relating to telepathy.
- 1969, Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer:
- He broke off, because one of the QCA men was bringing out a teep rod, a receptor that would pick up and record his thoughts for police inspection.
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teep (third-person singular simple present teeps, present participle teeping, simple past and past participle teeped)
- (science fiction) To use telepathy.
- 1955, Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery:
- Irritated, Benteley answered, "You're being teeped while you stand here. Verrick has them planted all over the place."
- 2008 August, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, “Legacy”, in Guardians of the Galaxy, volume 2, number 2, page 18:
- Heads up everyone. Mantis is teeping into our poor tired brains.
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- teek (“telekinesis”)