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Definition of Pipsqueak
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipsqueak
Literary usage of Pipsqueak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"This time we had not to deal with the four-inch naval guns, but with the eighty
millimetre quick-firer, which our men called the ' pipsqueak,' because the ..."
2. The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill (1916)
""They were cooking grub in a shed at the rear near Dead Cow Villa, and a pipsqueak
came plunk into the place. The head cook copped it in the legs, ..."
3. Shellproof Mack: An American's Fighting Story by Arthur James Mack (1918)
"A "pipsqueak" makes that kind of noise coming over, with the same general kind
of a bang at the end. "Crumps" are almost any kind of high explosive shell, ..."
4. Daytrips Eastern Australia: 60 One Day Adventures by Car, Rail Or Bus by James Postell (2004)
"I saw the pigeon-sized pipsqueak carry a guy's blue hat off his head and tuck it
into his nest at the far end of the aviary. Up the steps, through the ..."
5. Now You See It by Ron Wallace (2006)
"I think, let that walnut-sized pipsqueak have its way with me, that pebble in
cancer's slingshot that brings dim Goliath down. So, old friend, before I go ..."
6. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"To be belittled is to become little again, downgraded to a runt, a pipsqueak,
small fry. Small men have it rough in our culture. Men are supposed to be the ..."
7. Larue's Maneuvers by James Isaiah Gabbe (2007)
"On the other side of our cell's glass wall, the gendarmerie relished morning cafe
et croissants. This enraged the pipsqueak ..."
8. The Glow of Embers: Fragments with a Twist! by Robert Cronin (1996)
"Not your cardboard pipsqueak! It takes a lucifer with a real sulphur flame at
the end of a wooden splinter to do the job ..."
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