pipe up

verb

1. to commence singing or playing a musical instrument

   the band piped up

2. to speak up, esp in a shrill voice

Idioms and Phrases

Speak up, as in Finally she piped up, “I think I've got the winning ticket,” or Pipe up if you want more pancakes . This term originally referred to a high, piping tone. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

As such, the group should pipe up: what is the "vital interest" of moving Israeli civilians into the West Bank?

From The Daily Beast

Invariably, one of the members will pipe up, “You mean, Whom to endorse.”

From The Daily Beast

Well, we couldn't even think Bunker Hill but what she'd pipe up about the Alamo.

From Project Gutenberg

There was a big basin, with a pipe up through the middle, and this was where the water spouted up when it was running.

From Project Gutenberg

Pipe up your complaint or foot it, you flabby seacocks what call yourselves gentlemen of fortune!

From Project Gutenberg

Pete picked his pipe up from where it had fallen and relighted it.

From Project Gutenberg

When they get hungry we put the cooking stove on the fender, with the pipe up the chimney, and make a fire, and really cook.

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