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Meanings of pip-squeak in English

Someone who is small and insignificant.

Usage of pip-squeak in English
1
Little pip-squeak, I shall wallop his scrawny hide to ribbons.
Soulless
2
Listen, you little pip-squeak, I am coming down there.
Blue Moon
3
You scared of that pip-squeak?
The Maze Runner
4
He measured and remeasured it in his laboratory weekly, but it persisted, a pip-squeak of a number that wouldn't go away.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
5
The "pip-squeak" is a shell that starts with a silly "pip", goes on with a sillier "squeeeeee", and goes off with a man's-size bang.
A Yankee in the Trenches
6
"Arrogant little pip-squeak, that one," my father said, watching Victor disappear down the road.
The Good Daughters
7
"Okay," Jack says, wishing he could strangle this irritating pip-squeak, "let's move a step up the administrative ladder, shall we?
Black house
Pip-squeak through the time