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  • noun Plural form of pipsqueak.

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Examples

  • In my commentary for the Guardian, I take on the latest bad idea to come out of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — reader representative Ted Diadiun's widely mocked claim that bloggers are "pipsqueaks" who steal content.

    What's the matter with Cleveland? 2009

  • In my commentary for the Guardian, I take on the latest bad idea to come out of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — reader representative Ted Diadiun's widely mocked claim that bloggers are "pipsqueaks" who steal content.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • We overpassed them again; there was one smart minute or so when half a dozen 'pipsqueaks' burst in a narrow fault of the ground, scarcely a nulla, beside us, the steep sides killing the spread of the H.E. The enemy had been shrapnelling hard along the line occupied by the 56th

    The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

  • So not the crashing shells, the 'pipsqueaks' ripping the air like dried paper, nor the bullets pinging by, prevented men from greeting so dear a sight.

    The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

  • Twelve-pounder 'pipsqueaks' came in abundance, with a sprinkling of heavier stuff.

    The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

  • By last month, when Peretz was pitying "pipsqueaks" like me for my "hatred" of both my Jewish and American inheritances, I was just happy to indulge the daily routine of an aging eccentric (and hey, at least I didn't come in for the nasty treatment he gave his longtime writer John Judis).

    Daily Kos 2009

  • When it comes to energy density - the amount of power a battery can deliver for its size and weight - even lithium ion batteries are pipsqueaks compared to a tank of gasoline.

    Dr. Winfried Wilcke: Jumpstarting the Real Electric Car Revolution Dr. Winfried Wilcke 2010

  • When it comes to energy density - the amount of power a battery can deliver for its size and weight - even lithium ion batteries are pipsqueaks compared to a tank of gasoline.

    Dr. Winfried Wilcke: Jumpstarting the Real Electric Car Revolution Dr. Winfried Wilcke 2010

  • Catastrophic ones (like Krakatoa, Pinatubo, and lesser pipsqueaks like St. Helens) put out alot of alot of particulates.

    Global Warming... 2009

  • When it comes to energy density - the amount of power a battery can deliver for its size and weight - even lithium ion batteries are pipsqueaks compared to a tank of gasoline.

    Dr. Winfried Wilcke: Jumpstarting the Real Electric Car Revolution Dr. Winfried Wilcke 2010

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