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Definition of Pip-squeak
1. Noun. Someone who is small and insignificant.
Definition of Pip-squeak
1. Noun. A small and insignificant person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pip-squeak
Literary usage of Pip-squeak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Ladies from Hell," by Robert Douglas Pinkerton (1918)
"The father of the pip-squeak is that whistling pinwheel of the fireworks display,
... You can hear a pip-squeak coming, but its crazy Course is uncharted. ..."
2. "Ladies from Hell," by Robert Douglas Pinkerton (1918)
"The father of the pip-squeak is that whistling pinwheel of the fireworks display,
... You can hear a pip-squeak coming, but its crazy course is uncharted. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"Pip Squeak.—The slang expression for a small German shell which makes both a pip
and a squeak when it comes over the trenches. , . ..."
4. With a Field Ambulance at Ypres: Being Letters Written March 7-August 15, 1915 by William Boyd (1916)
"The "whizz-bang" whizzes and bangs, and the "pip-squeak," a little harmless fellow
more or less of the nature of a squib, makes a little squeak which merely ..."
5. "Over the Top" by Arthur Guy Empey (1917)
"Pip squeak. " Tommy's term for a small German shell which makes a "pip" and then
a "squeak," when it comes over. Poilu. French term, for their private ..."
6. A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes (1918)
"The "pip-squeak" is a shell that starts with a silly "pip", goes on with a sillier ..."
7. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle (1921)
"... and it was strange indeed to speak in those waters, for I knew well that
however ill my little pip-squeak might compare with that mighty voice, ..."
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