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peeper
noun- an eye UK, 1700
A definite old-fashioned feel to the term. Popularised in 1938 with the film Going Places and the song by Harry Warren: “Jeepers, creepers/ Where’d you get them peepers”. - They sure gave me the glad-hand when they laid their peepers on my new car. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 88, 1946
- Wait till they focused their bright peepers on that biopsy! — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 76, 1949
- [K]eep your peepers peeled for one of them Groinatex posters. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- [P]lenty of young and naked birds buzzing around for them to feast their dirty little peepers on. — Petra Christian, The Sexploiters, p. 22, 1973
- Time to wake up, kid, I mean, Bobbie. Open up your peepers. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 231, 1993
- a voyeur UK, 1652
- I looked down at my own pink tipped pretties and decided that maybe the peepers wouldn’t have much time for me after all. — Petra Christian, The Sexploiters, p. 70, 1973
- Otherwise, he comes and goes, like some goddamned peeper. — George V. Higgins, Penance for Jerry Kennedy, p. 202, 1985
- “ Okay, peepers then.” “Say what?” “Peeping Toms. Guys who get their kicks looking in windows.” — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 51, 1992
- “ Alfred Hitchcock did movies about peepers like you,” Fortney informed him. “And they all ended up in trouble.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 158, 1996
- a private investigator or private detective US, 1943
- “ Who’s the house peeper here now?” — Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, p. 44, 1949
- “Curt Gannon.” He gave a low chuckle that died in his throat. “The disillusioned peeper.” — Curt Cannon, Die Hard, p. 24, 1953
- “He that private peeper–Fortune.” — Michael Collins, Minnesota Strip, p. 66, 1987
- All you are is a peeper — Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem, p. 100, 1999
- “ One thing, Peeper!” he called after me. I stopped and looked round. “This Bronzini kid ... was murder. Serious stuff. No room here for a private operative, you understand?” — Malcolm Pryce, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, pp. 33–4, 2001
- a police detective UK
From an earlier sense as “policeman”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 87, 1996
- a card player who tries to see another player’s cards US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 65, 1988
- a one-way eye-hole in a door allowing the person on the inside to see who is outside; a peephole US
- She squinted through the peeper in gloomy twilight at a splindly blonde, who knew she was being observed. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 6, 1996
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