• (British) enPR: pēp, IPA: /piːp/
• (America) IPA: /pip/, [pʰip]

From Middle English pepen.

peep (plural peeps)

1. A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.
2. A feeble utterance or complaint.

   I don't want to hear a peep out of you!

3. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.
   • 2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 177 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001:

     "Peep, peep," said Edward, "I'm ready."
     "Peep, peep, peep," said Henry, "so am I."

4. (birdwatching, colloquial) A sandpiper or other small wader.

• French: pépiement
• German: Pieps
• Italian: cinguettio, pigolio, squittio
• Russian: писк
• Spanish: pío

• German: Pieps
• Italian: borbottio, brontolio, mugugno
• Spanish: susurro

peep (peeps, present participle peeping; simple past and past participle peeped)

1. To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.
2. To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

• German: piepen
• Italian: cinguettare
• Russian: пища́ть
• Spanish: piar

• German: piepsen
• Spanish: susurrar

From Middle English pepen, variant of piken.

peep (peeps, present participle peeping; simple past and past participle peeped)

1. (intransitive) To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.

   The man peeped through the small hole.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:

     And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

2. (intransitive, dated) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the page number):

     When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear.

   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC ↗, page 70 ↗:

     They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring’s Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous!

3. (transitive, slang) To take a look at; check out.

   Did you peep that video I sent you?

4. (transitive, AAVE, slang) To see, uncover.
   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 58 ↗:

     A lot of females were hesitant about getting with Pimp. He had a hard edge to him that made it impossible not to peep his cruel nature.

• French: épier, regarder furtivement
• German: lugen, linsen (coll.), illern (regional)
• Italian: spuntare, sbirciare
• Portuguese: espreitar, espiar
• Russian: подгля́дывать
• Spanish: husmear, espiar

• German: herausgucken (coll.), hervorgucken (coll.)
• Spanish: pishpar, pispar

peep (plural peeps)

1. A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.
2. The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.

   the peep of day

3. A peepshow.

• German: Blick
• Spanish: vistazo

peep (plural peeps)

1. (obsolete) A spot on a die or domino.

• (spot on die or domino) pip

peep (plural peeps)

1. (British, slang) A person.

• PEEPS® is a trademark of Just Born, Inc., since 1999, although the trademark was first used in 1954.

peep (plural peeps)

1. (US) A soft marshmallow candy, shaped into a baby animal for Easter celebration.

1. (slang) A World War II jeep attached to an armored regiment.
2. (medicine) Acronym of positive end-expiratory pressure

• (positive end-expiratory pressure) PIP