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Peephole   Listen
noun
Peephole  n.  A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Peephole" Quotes from Famous Books



... note on the bar and followed Panek. He was led toward a back corner, but there, instead of going into one of the booths, Panek pushed through an almost hidden alcove. He knocked peculiarly on a door, and a peephole was opened. When the guardian saw who it was, the door was opened enough so ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans

... If he is repressed, suppressed, frightened, he will not see very much, and what he does see will be out of focus. Spiritual strabismus and mental myopia are the results of vicarious peeps at the universe. All formal religions have taught that to look for yourself was bad. The peephole through the roof of his garret cost Copernicus his liberty, but ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

... was while Captain Court walked slowly toward the door, both hands well in sight. A pace from the door he stopped and exchanged a few words with someone watching him through a barred peephole. After a moment, the door slid open and ...
— Criminal Negligence • Jesse Francis McComas

... grindings, and whip-smacking and come-up-ing, for an indefinite period; and then we came to a cluster of cottages, suspended high up in the sharp autumn atmosphere as it seemed to me; and the driver of the vehicle came to my little peephole of a window, and told me with some slight modification of the Carthaginian patois ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon



Words linked to "Peephole" :   judas, eyehole, spyhole



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