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Pipels

Pipels is the plural of Pipel.

Meaning of Pipel

Noun

Pipel (plural Pipels)

  1. (historical, rare) Among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who receives special favor or privileges by maintaining a relationship with another detainee who has been granted some authority over other detainees.
    • He had a Polish Schreiber, a homosexual who was attended to by a Pipel, a German Gypsy who was the Schreiber's valet, his cook, his shoe shine boy, his lover, and his alternate, in which capacity he proved to be as much of a trouble to us as his boss.
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      None of Kapo Rudi's three Pipels was...2001, Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor 2, pages 240 and 266

Questions about Pipels

What is Pipels the plural of?
Pipels is the plural of Pipel.

Words near Pipels in the dictionary

  1. pipeliners
  2. pipelines
  3. pipelining
  4. pipelle
  5. pipelles
  6. Pipels
  7. pipemaker
  8. pipemakers
  9. pipemaking
  10. pipeman
  11. pipemanship

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