Word: pipsqueak
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...flying off the shelves at major outlets like Walmart and Toys "R" Us. Demand for the pets is so high that Zhu Zhus, which retail for $8 at Walmart, are going for $60 on secondary-market sites like Amazon.com and eBay.com. The hamsters, which have names like Mr. Squiggles, Pipsqueak and Num Nums, scoot around and coo like real pets. Kids can add accessories like a car, a skateboard and a wheel to their own little hamster world - without the inevitable mess or traumatic death. "This is the hottest toy of the year," says Gerald Storch, chairman...
...year-old pipsqueak, and I was working for an 80 year-old giant in the law,” she said...
...small car selling on sex appeal? Call it the return of pipsqueak chic. Small cars were supposed to have been bullied off the road by now, and to some extent they have been, with sales falling over the past few years as Americans traded up to SUVs and roomier, performance-enhanced sedans and minivans. With gas prices up nearly 70% since 2002, however, and a crackdown on tailpipe emissions looming in California, automakers are preparing a blitz of downsized models, from hatchbacks to wagons and minivans; even a pint-size Jeep is in the works. "There...
...happily drive out through Jackson, up over the incredible Teton pass (hammering the little chainsaw engine they put in this pipsqueak car as it tries in vain to find the right gear for going 70 mph up a 10 percent grade). I savagely step on the gas and dare it to blow a gasket, reveling in the guilt-free/worry-free magic of a rental car. I come over the hill into Idaho, not really knowing what to expect. To my left are the shining Rocky Mountains, sun glinting down through the clouds, a tremendous early spring day. To my right...
...there any grounds for turning the nation's news organizations over to so many pipsqueak Al Rokers? There is a widespread, but according to at least some experts dubious, belief that bad weather benefits Republicans (who will have Jeeves fire up the SUV and drive to the polls in heated comfort) and hurts Democrats (who are so hindered already by The Man's oppression that a sizable shower makes exercising the franchise out of the question...