peeper

plural peepers

1. colloquialin pluralThe eye.

   Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!

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   1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers? Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?

   The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.

   1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36

2. Someone who peeps; a spy.

   Who's there? peepers, intelligencers, eavesdroppers?

   1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page)

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   If listeners seldom hear good of themselves, it is also true that peepers sometimes see more than they like; and Betty, the cook, as she reached the landing, glancing askance with ominous curiosity, beheld a spectacle, the sight of which nearly bereft her of her senses.

   1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

3. datedderogatoryslangA private detective.

   So you go to see this peeper, this Marlowe. That was your mistake.

   1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)

4. A peeping tom.
5. An animal, such as some frogs, having a shrill, high-pitched call.
6. colloquialA chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.