piper

pip·er

a person who plays on a pipe; esp., a bagpiper

Origin of piper

Middle English pipere from Old English

piper Idioms

pay the piper

to pay for one's pleasures or bear the consequences of one's actions

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piper

noun

One who plays the bagpipe.
One who plays on a pipe.

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Noun

(plural pipers)

A musician who plays a pipe.
A bagpiper.
A baby pigeon.
A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

Noun

Archaic form of pepper.

Origin

Proper noun

An occupational surname.
A female given name used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie.

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P. Piper, p. 861.
That's Roman wormwood--that's pigweed--that's sorrel--that's piper-grass--have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward to the sun, don't let him have a fibre in the shade, if you do he'll turn himself t' other side up and be as green as a leek in two days.
Stephen's army was kidnapped by slave-dealers and sold into Egypt; while Nicolas's expedition left nothing behind it but an after-echo in the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Piper and Ficus, since the number of cosmopolitan or very widely distributed species is comparatively few, a geographical grouping is found specially convenient by those who are constantly receiving parcels of plants from known foreign sources.
PIPERINE, C17H,9N03, an alkaloid found in the fruits of Piper nigrum and P. longum.

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