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bopeep
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bopeep has 1 sense
- bopeep(n = noun.act) peekaboo - a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!; Array is a kind of child's game
CIDE DICTIONARY
bopeep, n. [Bo + peep.].
The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. [1913 Webster]
"I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bopeep,
And go the fools among." [1913 Webster]
That such a king should play bopeep,
And go the fools among." [1913 Webster]
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