Word.ws English Dictionary

peepers

peepers is the plural of peeper.

Meaning of peeper

Noun

peeper (plural peepers)

  1. (colloquial, in plural) The eye.
    • Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!
  2. Someone who peeps; a spy.
    • Who's there? peepers, intelligencers, eavesdroppers?1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please...
  3. (dated, derogatory, slang) A private detective.
    • So you go to see this peeper, this Marlowe. That was your mistake.1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
  4. A peeping tom.
  5. An animal, such as some frogs, having a shrill, high-pitched call.
  6. (colloquial) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

Phrases with peepers

Questions about peepers

What is peepers the plural of?
Peepers is the plural of peeper.

Words near peepers in the dictionary

  1. peeped out
  2. peeped pixels
  3. peepee
  4. peepees
  5. peeper
  6. peepers
  7. peepes
  8. peepest
  9. peepeth
  10. peephole
  11. peephole optimization

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peepers (page history and authors); peeper (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “peepers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/peepers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.