peeps
See also: Peeps
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
peeps
Verb edit
peeps
- third-person singular simple present indicative of peep
Etymology 2 edit
Shortened from people, with simplified spelling, + -s to emphasize the plurality of the word.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
peeps pl (normally plural, singular person)
- (slang) Alternative form of people; often especially (with personal pronoun) one's friends or associates. [from mid 20th c.]
- Not many peeps here tonight, innit?
- Hey my peeps, how are you doing?
- 2001, Shaggy, Rayvon (lyrics and music), “Angel”, in Hot Shot[1]:
- Girl, you're my angel, you're my darling angel.
Closer than my peeps you are to me, baby.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 108:
- I was a hard niggah, but not twisted enough to eat and socialize with my peeps knowing I was planning on robbing them before the night was over.
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English pipe, from Old English pīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā.
Noun edit
peeps
- pipes
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 20:
- An a cat at a big-peeps an a taal o hays coat.
- And the cat ate his bag-pipes and the tail of his coat.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133