pip-squeak
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Who can forget the pip-squeak who broke the fourth wall to reel in preschool audiences with problem-solving questions?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
STK DC, a lounge-oriented take on steakhouses, is a relative pip-squeak by comparison: The place takes up more than 8,000 square feet at the base of a Dupont Circle office building.
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2015
STATELINE, Nev. - Self-described "pip-squeak" actor Jack Wagner made seven birdies Friday to jump out to the first-round lead at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship at Lake Tahoe.
From Newsweek • Jul. 16, 2011
A pip-squeak ship like that ought to seem entirely harmless.
From Time • Mar. 11, 2011
“You scared of that pip-squeak? Dude, you got a lot to learn. Freakin’ Newbies.”
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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