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bagpipe

/ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/

bagpipe is the singular of bagpipes.

bagpipe is the attributive form of bagpipes.

Verb

bagpipe (third-person singular simple present bagpipes, present participle bagpiping, simple past and past participle bagpiped)

  1. To play the bagpipes.
  2. To lay (the mizzen) aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging.
  3. (slang) To masturbate a person's penis in one's armpit.
    • Until he met Sebastian, Tom had never even heard of bagpiping, and is generally too ticklish to be really good at it.2006, George K. Ilsley, ManBug, page 91

Meaning of bagpipes

Noun

bagpipes pl (normally plural, singular bagpipe)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.
    • Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.
    Synonyms:
    bagpipe, pipes, the pipes

Noun capitalized: Bagpipe

Bagpipe (plural Bagpipes)

  1. (UK) A British Rail Class 33/1 locomotive.

Forms of bagpipe

Noun
pluralbagpipes
pluralBagpipes
Verb
third-person singular presentbagpipes
present participlebagpiping
past participlebagpiped
pastbagpiped

Origin of bagpipe

In allusion to the subclass' jumper cables, which were installed on both ends to allow push-pull operation.

Words formed from bagpipe

Phrases with bagpipe

Questions about bagpipe

What does bagpipe mean?
Bagpipe means to play the bagpipes.
What is bagpipe the singular of?
Bagpipe is the singular of bagpipes.
What part of speech is bagpipe?
Bagpipe can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce bagpipe?
Bagpipe is pronounced /ˈbæɡˌpaɪp/.
What is the past tense of bagpipe?
The past tense of bagpipe is bagpiped.

Words near bagpipe in the dictionary

  1. bagougeramine
  2. bagougeramines
  3. bagpack
  4. bagpacker
  5. bagpacking
  6. bagpipe
  7. bagpipe lung
  8. bagpiped
  9. bagpipelike
  10. bagpiper
  11. bagpipers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bagpipe (page history and authors); Bagpipe (page history and authors); bagpipes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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