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- bag|pipes [ `bæg,paıps ] noun plurala Scottish musical instrument consisting of a bag with several pipes sticking out of it. You play it by blowing air through one of the pipes.
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bagpipes — bag|pipes [ˈbægpaıps] n [plural] a musical instrument played especially in Scotland in which air blown into a bag is forced out through pipes to produce the sound >bagpipe adj … Dictionary of contemporary English
bagpipes — n. wind instrument … English contemporary dictionary
