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▪ I. piped, ppl. a.1|paɪpt|
[f. pipe n.1 and v.2]
1. Furnished with a pipe or pipes; having the form of a pipe, tubular. piped key = pipe-key: see pipe n.1 11 b.
c1520in 9th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 126 A pypyd key for the wyket domus matris mee. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. 34 The adders hurte none but with thrusting in theyr small piped toothe. 1578Lyte Dodoens v. lxxi. 637 The wylde Garlyke hath no leaues, but..long, rounde, small, holowe, pyped blades. 1705J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1956 It's externally piped towards the Mouth. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 137 The ragged-robin..With its pip'd stem.
2. Formed into, or ornamented with, piping: see pipe v.2 4.
1884Pall Mall G. ‘Extra’ 24 July 2/1 A large vase is made of piped sugar. 1899Daily News 28 Oct. 7/3 The line of piped red cloth.
3. a. Conveyed by pipes.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Piped Air, ventilation carried into the working places in pipes. 1889Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 77 If piped water cannot be had.
b. Received over a wire or cable (rather than directly from broadcast signals); esp. in phr. piped music, background music, usu. pre-recorded, played through loudspeakers in a public place.
1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 40/2 Piped program, a program transmitted over wires. 1949Wireless World Feb. 67/2 Piped Television... Each block of flats will be equipped with a receiving aerial, from which the signal will be fed via an amplifier and distribution units to each flat. 1959Daily Mail 11 Aug. 1/6 A ‘piped’ television service is to be started soon by the Ekco and Ferguson companies. The system eliminates interference and overcomes reception snags in ‘fringe’ areas. 1969Morning Star 25 Mar. 2 To me, piped music is a sign of bad taste. 1973Times 27 Mar. (Sudan Suppl.) p. viii/2 A new Hilton Hotel, complete no doubt with swimming pool, air conditioning, piped music and American food. 1977Irish Times 8 June 13/4 (Advt.), Secluded furnished cottage; one bedroom, phone; piped t.v.; own entrance; {pstlg}16 per week.
c. Also piped-in adj.; also in sense of pipe v.2 6 b.
1959Economist 14 Mar. 976/2 There are beach chairs and umbrellas by the swimming pool,..a picnic area, barbecue pit, piped-in music. 1961Lancet 9 Sept. 591/1 Piped-in oxygen prevents noise from clanking cylinders. 1976M. Ierley Year that tried Men's Souls i. 72 Usefulness is limited to locations with access..to piped-in water. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 15/5 It dawns on him what's been playing on the restaurant's piped-in music system.
4. Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs. U.S. slang.
1912Pedagogical Seminary XIX. 97 Figurative expressions referring to..Intoxication:—‘full’, ‘piped’, [etc.]. 1913Dialect Notes IV. 11 The engineers were all piped. 1924G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 413 Piped, under influence of liquor or narcotics. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §106/7 Drunk,..piped.
▪ II. piped, ppl. a.2
[repr. F. pipé, f. piper to deceive, prop. to decoy birds by whistling. Cf. Cotgrave ‘Pipé, deceiued, cousened..gulled, beguiled. Cartes pipées, & Dez pipez, false cards or dice’.]
In phr. piped dice: see etymology.
1843James Forest Days (1847) 275 You must think me..ready to play against you with piped dice. |