- a person who plays music on a pipe or the bagpipesTopics Musicc2Word OriginOld English pīpere.
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Idioms
See piper in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhe who pays the piper calls the tune
- (saying) the person who provides the money for something can also control how it is spent
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