pipe up
to commence singing or playing a musical instrument: the band piped up
to speak up, esp in a shrill voice
Words Nearby pipe up
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How to use pipe up in a sentence
As such, the group should pipe up: what is the "vital interest" of moving Israeli civilians into the West Bank?
Invariably, one of the members will pipe up, “You mean, Whom to endorse.”
Well, we couldn't even think Bunker Hill but what she'd pipe up about the Alamo.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) PorterThere was a big basin, with a pipe up through the middle, and this was where the water spouted up when it was running.
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures | Howard R. Garispipe up your complaint or foot it, you flabby seacocks what call yourselves gentlemen of fortune!
The Pirate of Panama | William MacLeod Raine
Pete picked his pipe up from where it had fallen and relighted it.
On Your Mark! | Ralph Henry BarbourWhen they get hungry we put the cooking stove on the fender, with the pipe up the chimney, and make a fire, and really cook.
Harper's Young People, November 2, 1880 | Various
Other Idioms and Phrases with pipe up
Speak up, as in Finally she piped up, “I think I've got the winning ticket,” or Pipe up if you want more pancakes. This term originally referred to a high, piping tone. [Mid-1800s]
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