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Bopeep

Bopeep \Bo*peep"\, n. [Bo + peep.] The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.

I for sorrow sung, That such a king should play bopeep, And go the fools among.
--Shak.

WordNet
bopeep

n. a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say Boo! [syn: peekaboo]

Usage examples of "bopeep".

At length, as I leaned with my elbow on the bench one day, it ran up my clothes, and along my sleeve, and round and round the paper which held my dinner, while I kept the latter close, and dodged and played at bopeep with it.

Together he and the boys slit open the boxes and one by one lifted out a king's robe, a queen's tiara, and a Little Bopeep costume.