"pipe up" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pipe down"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pipes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piped up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piped up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
      "expansion": "pipe up (third-person singular simple present pipes up, present participle piping up, simple past and past participle piped up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"You seem to have a lot to say,\" remarked Silver, spitting far into the air. \"Pipe up and let me hear it, or lay to.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance:",
          "text": "Once I asked a seventeen-year-old singer something that wasn't on the list, which caused her manager to pipe up: \"That wasn't what we agreed on. She doesn't have to answer that.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:",
          "text": "As we rolled into our fourth week, I found myself piping up with some of my own stories.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly."
      ],
      "id": "en-pipe_up-en-verb-OXxczhIh",
      "links": [
        [
          "speak up",
          "speak up"
        ],
        [
          "robust",
          "robust"
        ],
        [
          "assertive",
          "assertive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 12, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[T]he frogs in a neighboring marsh began to pipe up for the evening concert.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Mark Twain, chapter 16, in Chapters from My Autobiography:",
          "text": "But presently the gray dawn stole over the world, the birds piped up, then the sun rose and poured light and comfort all around.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument."
      ],
      "id": "en-pipe_up-en-verb-siYKbxrK",
      "links": [
        [
          "sing",
          "sing"
        ],
        [
          "musical",
          "musical"
        ],
        [
          "note",
          "note"
        ],
        [
          "wind instrument",
          "wind instrument"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Jack London, “Make Westing”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories:",
          "text": "Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin to blow more vigorously."
      ],
      "id": "en-pipe_up-en-verb-wWmv3YL2",
      "links": [
        [
          "vigorous",
          "vigorous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of wind, etc.) To begin to blow more vigorously."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of wind"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Yet beyond turning my blood cold for a moment, it gave me little trouble, for evil tales have hung about the church; and though I did not set much store by the old yarns of Blackbeard piping up his crew, yet I thought strange things might well go on among the graves at night. And so I never budged, nor stirred hand or foot to save a fellow-creature in his agony.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pipe up"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pipe down"
    }
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    "English phrasal verbs",
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    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Talking"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pipes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piping up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piped up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "piped up",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "pipe up (third-person singular simple present pipes up, present participle piping up, simple past and past participle piped up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"You seem to have a lot to say,\" remarked Silver, spitting far into the air. \"Pipe up and let me hear it, or lay to.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance:",
          "text": "Once I asked a seventeen-year-old singer something that wasn't on the list, which caused her manager to pipe up: \"That wasn't what we agreed on. She doesn't have to answer that.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:",
          "text": "As we rolled into our fourth week, I found myself piping up with some of my own stories.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speak up",
          "speak up"
        ],
        [
          "robust",
          "robust"
        ],
        [
          "assertive",
          "assertive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 12, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[T]he frogs in a neighboring marsh began to pipe up for the evening concert.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Mark Twain, chapter 16, in Chapters from My Autobiography:",
          "text": "But presently the gray dawn stole over the world, the birds piped up, then the sun rose and poured light and comfort all around.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument."
      ],
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        [
          "sing",
          "sing"
        ],
        [
          "musical",
          "musical"
        ],
        [
          "note",
          "note"
        ],
        [
          "wind instrument",
          "wind instrument"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, Jack London, “Make Westing”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories:",
          "text": "Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To begin to blow more vigorously."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vigorous",
          "vigorous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of wind, etc.) To begin to blow more vigorously."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of wind"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Yet beyond turning my blood cold for a moment, it gave me little trouble, for evil tales have hung about the church; and though I did not set much store by the old yarns of Blackbeard piping up his crew, yet I thought strange things might well go on among the graves at night. And so I never budged, nor stirred hand or foot to save a fellow-creature in his agony.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "awaken",
          "awaken"
        ],
        [
          "summon",
          "summon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pipe up"
}