1 [V] (of small birds and some insects) to make short high sounds:
The sparrows / crickets were chirping.
2 [V, Vspeech] to speak in a lively and cheerful way
chirp (also chirrup) noun
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Is chirp a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, chirp is tagged as verb.
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