Plipper
noun
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Noun
- 1 A remote-control device used to unlock a car without having to put the keys into the lock.
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From plip + -er. So-called for the plip sound made when the car is unlocked. From its french inventor Paul Lipschutz (head of Neiman, maker of car anti-theft device for cars ) who created it in 1978.
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