peeps
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See also: Peeps
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piːps/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -iːps
Etymology 1
Noun
peeps
Verb
peeps
- third-person singular simple present indicative of peep
Etymology 2
Shortened from people, with simplified spelling, + -s to emphasize the plurality of the word.
Alternative forms
Noun
peeps pl (normally plural, singular person)
- (slang) Alternative form of people; often especially (with personal pronoun) one's friends or associates. [from mid 20th c.]
- Not many peeps here tonight, innit?
- Hey my peeps, how are you doing?
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
- I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
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Etymology
From Middle English pipe, from Old English pīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā.
Pronunciation
Noun
peeps
- pipes
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 20:
- An a cat at a big-peeps an a taal o hays coat.
- And the cat ate his bag-pipes and the tail of his coat.
Derived terms
References
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133
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