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peep
verb- to look at something, to discover something US, 1992
Variation of conventional “peep” (to look). - Just some fools peepin’ out the ride. — Menace II Society, 1993
- [P]eep it or weep. — Hip-Hop Connection, p. 24, July 2002
- Peep the “Top 10 Albums” and you’ll see ya boys on that list. — The Source, p. 44, March 2002
- to listen to someone or something US
- — Ebony Magazine, p. 156, August 2000: “How to talk to the new generation”
- to read music US
- — Robert S. Gold, A Jazz Lexicon, p. 227, 1964
- to watch in a voyeuristic manner US
- [T]hey peeped naked chicks on cable for free. — John Ridley, Everybody Smokes in Hell, p. 4, 1999
- to engage in surveillance US
- “What do you say we peep through the hospital. Otherwise we’re a stand-out on the street.” — John Sepe, Cop Team, p. 20, 1975
- “Let’s go peep a lick, Salt,” Little Rock said, using street slang for casing a liquor store to rob. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 197, 1993
▶ peep the holecard
to gain deep insight into someone’s character US- — Maledicta, p. 266, Summer/Winter 1981: “By its slang, ye shall know it: the pessimism of prison life”
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