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pip·er  (ppr)
n.
1. One who plays the bagpipe.
2. One who plays on a pipe.

piper [ˈpaɪpə]
n
1. (Music, other) a person who plays a pipe or bagpipes
pay the piper and call the tune to bear the cost of an undertaking and control it

Piper [ˈpaɪpə]
n
(Biographies / Piper, John (1903-1992) M, British, ARTS AND CRAFTS: artist) John. 1903-92, British artist. An official war artist in World War II, he is known esp for his watercolours of bombed churches and his stained glass in Coventry Cathedral
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Noun1.piperpiper - someone who plays the bagpipe        
instrumentalist, musician, player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
pipe major - the chief piper in a band of bagpipes
2.Piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
family Piperaceae, pepper family, Piperaceae - tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets
pepper vine, true pepper - any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper
black pepper, common pepper, Madagascar pepper, pepper, Piper nigrum, white pepper - climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
long pepper, Piper longum - slender tropical climber of the eastern Himalayas
betel, betel pepper, Piper betel - Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba, cubeb - tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
Translations
piper [ˈpaɪpəʳ] N (on bagpipes) → gaitero/a m/f
he who pays the piper calls the tunequien paga, manda
piper [ˈpaɪpər] n
(= flute player) → joueur/euse m/f de pipeau
(= bagpipe player) → joueur/euse m/f de cornemuse
he who pays the piper calls the tune → qui paie les violons choisit la musique
pipe rack nrâtelier m à pipes.
pipe smoker nfumeur m de pipe
pipe tobacco ntabac m à pipe
piper
nFlötenspieler(in) m(f); (on fife) → Pfeifer(in) m(f); (on bagpipes) → Dudelsackpfeifer(in) m(f); to pay the piper (fig)die Kosten tragen, für die Kosten aufkommen; he who pays the piper calls the tune (Prov) → wer bezahlt, darf auch bestimmen
piper [ˈpaɪpəʳ] n (on bagpipes) → suonatore/trice di cornamusa
piper [ˈpaɪpəʳ] n (on bagpipes) → suonatore/trice di cornamusa


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Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.
Then there is the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, how first he piped the rats away, and afterward, when the mayor broke faith with him, drew all the children along with him and went into the mountain.
Turning to the Kid, he said, "It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher, should not have turned piper to please you.
 
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