peephole
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English
View through a peephole
Barack Obama looking through the Oval Office door peephole
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /piːphəʊl/
- (US) IPA(key): /piphoʊl/, IPA(key):
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: peep‧hole
Noun
peephole (plural peepholes)
- A small hole, opening, or piece of glass, especially in a door, through which one can look without being seen.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- It’s a conjurer’s den. — I shouldn’t be surprised if cabby’s old gent is staring at us all the while from some peephole of his own.
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Translations
hole
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Further reading
- “peephole”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “peephole”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “peephole”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “peephole”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.