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piper.

A musician who plays a pipe.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpaɪ.pə/UK/ˈpaɪ.pɚ/US/ˈpʌɪ.pɚ/Canada
  1. A musician who plays a pipe.

  2. A bagpiper.

  3. A baby pigeon.

  4. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.

  5. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.

  6. A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.

  7. A broken-winded hack horse.

    obsolete · slang
  8. A person who smokes crack cocaine.

    slang
Where this word comes from

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.

noun
  1. Archaic form of pepper.

    alt-of · archaic
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