Meaning of Peter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P.
2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.
   countable, uncountable
3. The penis.
   slang
4. A safe.
   UK, slang
5. Peter (leading Apostle in the New Testament)
6. The leading Apostle in the New Testament: Saint Peter.
   countable, uncountable
7. A prison cell.
   UK, slang
8. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Peter
9. The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
   countable, uncountable
10. A surname originating as a patronymic.
    countable, uncountable
11. A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah, United States, named after Peter Maughan.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.”

“What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word, / And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, / And Peter like a piper's tune,”

“Reps. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Peter Meijer, a Republican from Michigan, said in a joint statement Tuesday that they had traveled to Kabul “to conduct oversight on the mission to evacuate Americans and our allies” and that the trip had been conducted in secret “to minimize the risk and disruption to the people on the ground.””

“You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.”

“... and you were there, and they acted like you weren't even born yet?' "I'd say, 'Yes, their memories are as long as their peters.'"”

““It's to put on their peters when they don't want to make babies,” she said.”

“It used to be simple to 'crack a peter'. Safe-breaking (blowing or cracking a 'peter') in the past three or four years shows that the expert cracksman knows his job.”

“The forty quid! Gone! ’Ow could she ’ave gotten in there? The peter ain’t broke, no sign of it bein’ bettied, and I the only one w’ the key.”

“[…] the ceremony of 'slopping out', breakfast, across to the main library from nine till half-past eleven, back to my peter for the mid-day meal and two hours' break, then the library again till five o'clock when tea was brought round and the cell door locked for the night.”

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