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Heep

American  
[heep] / hip /

noun

  1. Uriah. Uriah Heep.


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There’s no denying the pleasure of seeing Dickens’s Peggottys transformed into the kindly Peggots, or his oily villain Uriah Heep recast as a sniveling assistant football coach named U-Haul Pyles.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2022

Ken Hensley, best known as the keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter for the British hard rock band Uriah Heep, died on Wednesday at age 75.

From Fox News • Nov. 5, 2020

Besides Davis and Hatcher, their lineup usually featured the likes of Franklin Stubbs, John Shelby and Danny Heep.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2020

Born in Bournemouth, Dorset, in 1947, Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in 1971.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2020

Heep was a high-shouldered, red-headed, bony young man, with no eyebrows or eyelashes, and with long skeleton fingers.

From Tales from Dickens by Rives, Hallie Erminie

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