Crossword clues for peeper
peeper
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sandpiper \Sand"pi`per\, n.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid[ae].
Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ( Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ( T. alpina); the purple sandpiper ( T. maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ( T. canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper ( Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ( Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper ( Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ( Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.
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(Zo["o]l.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "one who peeps," agent noun from peep (v.1). Slang meaning "eye" is c.1700. From 1590s as "young chicken" and 1857 as "tree frog" (American English), both from peep (v.2).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial chiefly in the plural English) The eye. 2 Someone who peeps; a spy. 3 An animal, such as some frogs, that have a shrill, high-pitched call. 4 (context dated slang derogatory English) A private detective. 5 (context colloquial English) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird. 6 A peeping tom.
WordNet
n. a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others [syn: voyeur, Peeping Tom]
an informal term refering to the eye
an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
Wikipedia
Peeper or Peepers may refer to:
- Peeper (film), a 1976 comedy film
- Peepers (film), a 2010 film
- Peepers, a comic book character
- A person engaging in voyeurism
- The spring peeper, a small tree frog
Peeper is a 1976 comedy-mystery film directed by Peter Hyams that starred Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker, a bungling private investigator. It was a send-up of the 1940s film noir genre, but it was released at the same approximate time as both the drama-mystery Chinatown and the Herbert Ross-directed Woody Allen comedy Play It Again, Sam, and as a direct result, Peeper was a box-office failure that jeopardized Hyams's career and almost prevented him from obtaining funding to produce Capricorn One.
Usage examples of "peeper".
The slight young man had a talent for mimicking the Peeper, a skill that would now be put to use.
Well, there was the obvious association: the stereotype of a private investigator is that of a snooper, a keyhole peeper.
It rose on the breeze above the sounds of the crickets and peepers, a light roulade of notes, silvery and melodious, faint at first, then taking on a definite form and melody.
Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.
We went out and explored the city in the fading light of evening, drifting the gray Dodge back and forth through the social and commercial strata, snuffling the flavors of change, the plastic aromas of the new Florida superimposed on the Spanish moss, the rain-sounds of the night peepers in the marsh, the sea smell of low tides, creak of bamboo in light winds, fright cry of the cruising night birds, tiny sirens of the mosquitoes, faraway flicker of lightning silhouetting the circus parade of thunderheads on the Gulf horizon-superimposed on all these old enduring things, known when only Caloosas made their shell mounds and slipped through the sawgrass in their dugouts.
Pitts the peeper, peaches, Parchester, plagiarism, Paula, principals, pouters, poisonous pits, and parades!
The road was quiet except for the chorusing of peepers in the lengthening shadows.
He dressed, had his coffee, and descended to the Staging Hall where, after a savage skirmish with the peeper Customs Man (Tension, apprehension, and dissention have begun!
Keep one peeper peeled for this hero fella you say's coming, maybe kindle a light, start a little summat boiling on the guardroom fire, hot wine, the cup that cheers, just the thing what with a winter like we're like to have, judging by the misery as's crept into me bones.
She caught a glimpse of a peeper out of the corner of her eye, white and wriggly, squirming among the grass roots.
The peepers will remove the unformed buds so that the still hibernating 'Dini pair will never know.
Pass the word that the peeper who locates Barbara D'Courtney for me will have his Guild taxes remitted for a year.
The great, night-freezing cry which haunted the southern latitudes was seldom heard here, though whole choruses of grublike peepers filled the dark hours with dulcet sound.
He was aware of no distractions except the great night moths that blundered into him with their squishy bodies and the peepers that raised their hymns from the grass roots.
On the sunlit soil, the peepers drew themselves into spherical masses, all wrinkles smoothed away.