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verb (intr, adverb)

to commence singing or playing a musical instrumentthe band piped up

to speak up, esp in a shrill voice

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Words nearby pipe up

pipe snake, pipes of Pan, pipestem, pipestone, pipette, pipe up, pipe vine, pipewort, pipe wrench, pipi, piping

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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?
A Bogus Defense Of E1 Construction|Ali Gharib|December 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Invariably, one of the members will pipe up, “You mean, Whom to endorse.”
Electing a Punch Line|Christopher Buckley|October 20, 2008|DAILY BEAST
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) Porter
There 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. Garis

Pipe 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 Barbour
When 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

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]