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  • adjective Resembling a bagpipe, especially in shape or sound

Etymologies

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bagpipe +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The noises returned full blast, only this time the dominant sound was a bagpipelike squeal.

    Sign of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1987

  • Generally dispensing with power chords, the group's two lead guitarists, Scotsmen Stuart Adamson (formerly of the Skids) and Bruce Watson, whip up skirling, bagpipelike single-string riffs that, on such crackling tracks as "Fields of Fire," "In a Big Country" and the grandly martial "Harvest Home," are a nonstop, spine-tingling delight.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2010

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