Definition of "bopeep" [bo•peep]

• The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. (noun)

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• "All run-away sheep bound back bopeep, trailing their teenes behind them."
• "But my opinion is that if you don't live with him, you had better live without him, and not go shilly-shallying and playing bopeep."
• "There was a charming mixture of all that is needed to make a garden perfect -- grass, velvety lawn rather; water, for a little brook ran tinkling in and out, playing bopeep among the bushes; trees, of course, and flowers, of course, flowers of every shade and shape."