yelper

yelper

A siren, especially that of a police car. The cops gave the loiterers a quick blast of the yelper to get them to scatter. We make a run for it once we heard the yelpers coming our way.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

yelper

n. the whooping (electronic) siren on emergency vehicles. The black and white rounded the corner, yelper blasting.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • blues and twos
  • bring (something) to rest
  • bring to rest
  • bring to a standstill
  • bring (someone or something) to a standstill
  • a standstill
  • stand still
  • standstill
  • halt
  • bring to a halt
References in periodicals archive
It has friends, influencers called "Elite Yelpers" and direct messages.
Calls also has a new EGG Push Button Yelper. This egg-shaped call can be used as a traditional handheld push-button turkey call, or can be mounted on the hunter's gun.
So we have these Yelper squads all over the world, she said.
Here is just one of the reviews from their customers on Yelp.com: “I hired BCS a few years ago - before I was a Yelper - and they were great.
To force the action, Stu opened up with his mouth yelper, and I answered with the glass friction call.
"Now, here's something you should never do when trying to locate gobblers," I said as I pulled a Tom Turpin wingbone-style yelper from my vest.
One new trend in blown calls is the pump-action yelper.
Primos [R] has also perfected the Wing Bone Yelper [TM] for this year.
The Pump-Action Yelper is a hand-operated turkey call that uses a mouth diaphragm as its reed.
(For example, Yelp's official position: "We don't typically take sides in factual disputes, and generally allow Yelpers to stand behind their reviews.") They also have their own legal shield: the U.S.
A couple of years ago, after complaints from Yelpers, protests from environment-conscious teens and (perhaps unrelated) plummeting sales, Abercrombie announced that marine breeze would no longer flow from the HVACs.
Once you start to teach users of Yelp, these "Yelpers" will often write reviews as a matter of standard practice, thereby increasing your visibility on the site.
The Santa Dog Run sets off 10 minutes after the main event, with "Santa's little yelpers" all receiving a commemorative bone-shaped collar tag and treat.
Yelpers (https://www.yelp.com/biz/now-and-then-second-hand-store-orange?sort_by=date_desc) report their thrift store shown on the series, Now and Then Second Hand in Orange, California, appears to have moved or closed and as of Thursday, the number for the business was out of service.
LITTLE YELPERS A bit of Christmas cuteness to help pull in viewers