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1
: one that makes a peeping sound
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: any of various tree frogs that peep shrilly
especially
: spring peeper
Examples of peeper in a Sentence
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Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
Looking to get the clearest view without hurting those peepers?
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Sage Anderson, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2024
Officers conducting surveillance for a serial peeper at Monterey hotels arrested a 33-year-old man seen crawling onto a hotel roof to peer in windows, California police reported.
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Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 8 Apr. 2024
For petal peepers like me, this was the Super Bowl, Christmas morning and Mardi Gras rolled into one long vibrant season.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2024
Humans have serviceable vision for the purposes of navigating during the day, spotting friend and foe in the distance, and reading online articles; as such, our peepers comprise around 0.003 percent of our total mass as adults.
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Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
The more obvious one, given those titular peepers, is that Mizu had a white father, rendering her an impure monster to her countrymen.
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Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
These sunnies also have side shields, further protecting your peepers from harm.
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Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 July 2024
Chances are good that whatever color their peepers were at birth won't last.
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Parents Editors, Parents, 7 June 2024
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The peeper was released on bond, and his fate now rests in the courts.
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“Peeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peeper. Accessed 25 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
peeper
1 of 2 noun
peep·er
ˈpē-pər
: any of various tree frogs that peep
especially
: spring peeper
peeper
2 of 2 noun1
: one that peeps
especially
: peeping tom
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