bo-peep
Americannoun
noun
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a game for very young children, in which one hides (esp hiding one's face in one's hands) and reappears suddenly
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informal a quick look (esp in the phrase have a bo-peep )
Etymology
Origin of bo-peep
Example Sentences
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Are your senses playing bo-peep with the ghost of some pigeon-livered coast captain, eh?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 by Various
The sofa pillows appeared to have been playing "bo-peep" with each other, for three had hid themselves under one sofa, and the fourth I found in the after-cabin, jammed between my portmanteau and the bulk-head.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
I'll toss him up, I'll tumble him, Play "creep-mouse," and "bo-peep," Perhaps if I can make him laugh, The laugh will make him sleep.
From The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various
It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
So o'erheard I one say, as he withdrew To a fairy scene that well I knew, Light lac'd with shadow, shadow with light, Leaves playing bo-peep from morn unto night.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
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