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chirrups

chirrups is the plural of chirrup.

Meaning of chirrup

Noun

chirrup (plural chirrups)

  1. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
    • And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.
    • For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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Questions about chirrups

What is chirrups the plural of?
Chirrups is the plural of chirrup.

Words near chirrups in the dictionary

  1. chirruped
  2. chirruper
  3. chirrupers
  4. chirruping
  5. chirrupings
  6. chirrups
  7. chirrupy
  8. chirs
  9. Chirton
  10. chiru
  11. chirugeon

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