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  • noun Plural form of peeper. (eyes).

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Examples

  • Smiling Pool, -- the Hylas, which some people call peepers, -- and eating the carrot which Farmer Brown's boy had left for him.

    The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack 1919

  • The Decider also has Iran in his little peepers which is giving many of us the creepers.

    Archive 2007-09-01 News from Mad Plato 2007

  • Some game bird breeders even debeak the birds or attach "peepers" or googles to their eyes to keep them attacking each other in the packed pens. (see: caged hen egg operations.)

    Is your state breeding birds for Dick Cheney style hunting like Illinois? 2007

  • The Decider also has Iran in his little peepers which is giving many of us the creepers.

    REALIGN AND RETASK News from Mad Plato 2007

  • I knowed ye as soon as I laid my 'peepers' on ye, an 'if I said as it were a foul, why, when a man's in' is cups, d'ye see, 'e's apt to shoot rayther wide o' the gospel, d'ye see, an 'there was no offence, my lord, strike me blind!

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Sometimes on clear, soft nights, when the moon came out all splendid and the "peepers" sang so plaintively in the Hollow, the boy's heart would fill and grow enormous in his chest with the intolerable sadness he felt.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • "peepers," as they are often called because of the peeping noise they make.

    The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young Margaret Warner Morley 1890

  • Another great planning tool is The Foliage Network, which collects data from an army of volunteer foliage spotters twice a week during the fall, ensuring an up-to-date and very specific report for “leaf peepers.

    Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives Joe Yogerst 2010

  • Another great planning tool is The Foliage Network, which collects data from an army of volunteer foliage spotters twice a week during the fall, ensuring an up-to-date and very specific report for “leaf peepers.

    Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives Joe Yogerst 2010

  • Leaf peepers who have been there, done that in the Northeast might want to try a new region: the Rocky Mountains.

    SmartMoney Saturday 2010

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  • Jeepers creepers, Weirdnet!

    October 18, 2008

  • Makes me wonder about all those leaf peepers in New England come autumn.

    October 18, 2008

  • Percy Pornstar poked a pack of perving _____

    October 18, 2008

  • Also a word for the small tree frogs that gather in ponds and puddles in the spring and then create loud choruses of peeping.

    May 22, 2009

  • I knew frogs were chirruping little voyeurs.

    May 22, 2009

  • Better than big-eared eavesdroppers.

    May 22, 2009