Pipe up

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly. intransitive

    ""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.""

  2. 2
    utter a shrill cry wordnet
  3. 3
    To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument. intransitive

    "[T]he frogs in a neighboring marsh began to pipe up for the evening concert."

  4. 4
    begin to play or sing wordnet
  5. 5
    To begin to blow more vigorously. intransitive, usually

    "Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up."

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  1. 6
    To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument. rare, transitive

    "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."

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