1 [V] ~ (at sth) to look quickly and secretly at sth, especially through a small opening:
We caught her peeping through the keyhole. * He was peeping at her through his fingers. * Could I just peep inside?
2 [V+adv./prep.] (written) to be just visible:
The tower peeped above the trees. * The sun peeped out from behind the clouds.
3 [V, VN] to make a short high sound; to make sth make this sound.
Part of speech: noun
1 [C,usually sing.] a quick or secret look at sth:
Dave took a quick peep at the last page.
2 [sing.] (informal) something that sb says or a sound that sb makes:
We did not hear a peep out of the baby all night.
3 [C] a short high sound like the one made by a young bird or by a whistle
4 (also peep peep) [C] a word for the sound of a car's horn, used especially by children
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for peep is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is peep a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, peep is tagged as verb.
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