peekaboo
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əˌbu noun
adjective
2.
Clothing.
a.
decorated with openwork.
b.
made of a sheer and revealing material, as some blouses for women.
3.
appearing briefly and then vanishing, or promising to appear but failing to do so: the fluctuating response of the stock market to a peekaboo economic recovery.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a game for young children, in which one person hides his face and suddenly reveals it and cries "peekaboo." |
| —adj | |
| 2. | (of a garment) made of fabric that is almost transparent or patterned with small holes |
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Peekaboo
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
Slowly they learn to enjoy hanging out in the playrooms, where favorite games are peekaboo and hide-and-seek.
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