peep
/pip/ verb C2- To look forth from concealment, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. · The man peeped through the small hole.
- To begin to appear; to make the first appearance.
- To take a look at; check out. · Did you peep that video I sent you?
- To see, uncover.
He/she/it peeps · Past peeped · Past participle peeped · -ing form peeping
Verb forms
- Base form
- peep
- He/she/it
- peeps
- Past
- peeped
- Past participle
- peeped
- -ing form
- peeping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.
Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky.
She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face.
They have no speech of their own, but use the stolen words which they overhear when they listen, and peep, and wait up above in the branches.
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