Peekaboo

Definition: Peekaboo

Peekaboo

Noun

1. A game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say Boo!.

Date "peekaboo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Peekaboo

Synonym: bopeep (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Peekaboo

Domain	Title
Books	Peekaboo Baby (Look Baby! Books) (reference) Peekaboo Kisses (reference) Peekaboo Morning (reference) Peekaboo! I See You! (Sesame Beginnings) (reference) Peekaboo, I Love You: 9 Months & Up (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Peekaboo

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Usage Frequency: Peekaboo

"Peekaboo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peekaboo" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Peekaboo

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
peekaboo	178
lingerie peekaboo	10
bra peekaboo	9
baby peekaboo	5
peekaboo street	5
care day peekaboo	4
peekaboo penis	4
peekaboo thong	4
peekaboo web	3
dog peekaboo	2
peekaboo puppy	2
fingerplay peekaboo	2
pantie peekaboo	2
club peekaboo	2
care child peekaboo	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Peekaboo

Language		Translations for "peekaboo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Versteckspiel (hide and seek). (various references)

Pig Latin		eekaboopay

Russian		куку. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		žmurke (hide and seek, hy spy). (various references)

Spanish		cucú (cuckoo). (various references)

Swedish		tittut (peep-bo). (various references)

Turkish		transparan (see through, sheer, transparent), delikli (cavernous, cribriform, having holes, hollow, perforate, perforated, porous, punched, spongy), ce. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Peekaboo

Derivations
	Words beginning with "peekaboo": peekaboos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Peekaboo"

Words rhyming with "peekaboo" (pronounced 'Peek"a*boo'): Carriboo, Samboo. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Peekaboo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-k-o-o-p"
	-3 letters: apeek, pekoe, pooka.
	-4 letters: akee, bake, beak, beep, book, keep, kobo, oboe, peak, peek, peke, poke.
	-5 letters: abo, ape, bap, bee, boa, boo, bop, eke, kab, kae, kea, kep, koa, kob, kop, oak, obe, oka, oke, ope, pea, pee.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-k-o-o-p"
	+1 letter: peekaboos.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.