peeper
1a person or thing that emits or utters a peeping sound.
Northeastern U.S. any of several frogs having a peeping call, especially the spring peeper.
Origin of peeper
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a person who peeps in an abnormally prying manner; a voyeur.
peepers, Slang. the eyes.
Origin of peeper
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How to use peeper in a sentence
A human with a proportionate anatomy would have dinner plate-sized peepers.
This 90-million-year-old crab had the eyes of a hunter | Philip Kiefer | January 11, 2022 | Popular-ScienceThe park’s thick and lush hardwood canopy goes full Technicolor in October, attracting thousands of leaf peepers looking for Instagram gold.
Some eye issues ease when we give our peepers a break, but other times the solution is simply a stronger prescription.
The facility is already using its massive peeper to take a close look at sunspots, and its observations may someday lead to better forecasts of space weather.
Humans have long dreamt about looking directly at the Sun, even though it’s extremely dangerous for our peepers.
Images like this one could help reveal the Sun’s inner workings | María Paula Rubiano A. | December 11, 2020 | Popular-Science
A farmer going by told him it was only a "spring peeper," whatever that was, "some kind of a critter in the water."
Two Little Savages | Ernest Thompson SetonHe had the sore peeper bound up for three or four days before he took it to a hospital.
Odd Numbers | Sewell FordNed Ward describes them as figuring, in his time, on the door of “a star-peeper,” in Prescot Street.
The History of Signboards | Jacob LarwoodHe quietly sidled up to the hole where a peeper's nose made a knot on the tent on the inside.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales | Robert L. TaylorHe kept his eyes on the crosshair of the peeper, one hand over the timer button.
Anchorite | Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for peeper
/ (ˈpiːpə) /
a person who peeps
(often plural) a slang word for eye 1 (def. 1)
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