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peep show

noun

  1. a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
  2. a short, usually erotic or titillating film shown in a coin-operated viewing machine equipped with a projector.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of peep show1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

There are 200 mosquitos from New Delhi caught and killed mid-bite, peep-show coins, and artifacts of daily life in North Korea.

The brilliant British TV sitcom, “Peep Show,” starring Mitchell and Webb.

The last four peep show girls in Times Square have seen it all....

The nickelodeon was a new business, a novelty, something between a circus and a peep show.

It was the least little bit like a peep-show, and didn't seem quite real.

It was as if he had been looking in at a cosmic peep-show, and turning from it at brief intervals to tell us what he saw.

She has done with the peep show now, and I do not want her to be any longer associated with it.

And I'm 'tendin' to it so close that I ain't got time to waste on any cheap peep-show critters.

I saw always the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.

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