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Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred slang.
[Names of three animal characters featured in a children's comic strip in the Daily Mirror from 1920 onwards.]
Designating a trio of objects or persons.
[1920‘Uncle Dick’ in Daily Mirror 25 Mar. 13/2 Aren't Pip and Squeak and Wilfred sweet measuring their heights? 1920― Pip, Squeak, & Wilfred 60 Some time ago, Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred dreamed they were real children. Ibid. 61, I am rather fond of Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred. I, too, have my dreams.] 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 633/2 Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, the medals (or medal ribbons), 1914–15 Star, War Medal, Victory Medal. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 48 Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, the 1914–15 Star, the Great War and Victory medals or ribbons worn in a row. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 35 Other names [for a trio of friends] are Pip, Squeak and Wilfrid [sic]. 1977Times 30 Sept. 16/8 That goes for Messrs Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, too. |