chirper n.2
1. the mouth.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. a singer.
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Man About Harlem 15 Aug. [synd. col.] Henrietta Brown [...] a fine chirper. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 20 Jan. 7/1: Helen Humes, the Count Basie chirper. | |
 | Associated Press 29 Mar. n.p.: An ork [orchestra] chirper is a gal who [...] chirps with the orchestra [W&F]. |
3. (US) an orator, a speaker.
| Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit 24 May [synd. cartoon strip] This man’s wife is a suffragette. She stayed out all hours of the night with those daffy female chirpers. |
4. an informer, a gossip.
| ‘Situation Wanted’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 660: I do not consider it necessary to mention [...] because I am by no means a chirper. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(US) to accelerate one’s car from a standstill so as to make the tyres screech.
| Adolescence XIII 499: He could ‘pull a chirper,’ [...] a loud squealing noise caused by giving the car more gasoline that necessary while releasing the clutch [HDAS]. |