peeps

Noun (1)

peep (plural peeps)

1. A feeble utterance or complaint.
   • I don't want to hear a peep out of you!
2. (collective) A brood of chicks (young chickens).
   • Two big canopy beds packed with kilims and cushions in the corner of the hut are lit warmly in the glow of the paraffin lanterns as a peep of chicks run inside, quite bravely I think, since their elder relative just got the chop.2025, Roxana Shirazi, Dead Iranian Girl, Rare Bird Books
3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
   • With a "peep" from a high-pitched whistle, the train would leave by the crossover to the down line, […].1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 168
4. (colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader.
   • When I spotted two small warm-brown scaley-plumaged ‘peeps’ with yellow legs, my commentary immediately identified them as Least Sandpipers.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 91

Noun (2)

peep (plural peeps)

1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
   • So saying she loosened some ivory screws of the guitar, so as to open a peep lengthwise through its interior.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.
   • the peep of day

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Noun

people (countable and uncountable, plural peoples)

1. (collective, countable) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
   • a people apart

   Synonyms:

   collective, community, congregation, folk

2. A group of persons regarded as being servants, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler or leader.
   • Moses said, "Let my people go."

   Synonyms:

   fans, groupies, supporters

3. One's colleagues or employees.
   • I'll have my people call your people.
4. A person's ancestors, relatives or family.
   • My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War.

   Synonyms:

   kin, kith, folks

5. The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
   • The people have successfully stood up against tyranny and totalitarianism.

   Synonyms:

   populace, commoners, citizenry

6. People in general, humans, by extension sentient beings real or fictional.
   • People don't like it when you tweak their noses.

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