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peekaboo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peekaboo has 1 sense
- peekaboo(n = noun.act) bopeep - 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
OXFORD DICTIONARY
peekaboo, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a garment etc.) transparent or having a pattern of small holes.
2 (of a hairstyle) concealing one eye with a fringe or wave.
--n. US = BO-PEEP.
--adj.
1 (of a garment etc.) transparent or having a pattern of small holes.
2 (of a hairstyle) concealing one eye with a fringe or wave.
--n. US = BO-PEEP.
Etymology
PEEK + BOO
THESAURUS
peekaboo
clear, clear as crystal, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, diaphane, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, light-pervious, limpid, lucid, nonopaque, pellucid, revealing, see-through, sheer, thin, transparent, transpicuous, unclouded
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