(card games, intransitive) In whist, to play a blue peter.

(idiomatic) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.

(management) The theory that people in an organization tend to rise (be promoted) to the level of their incompetence.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peter out

present participle of peter out

simple past tense and past participle of peter out

A man who acts as a child and does not accept the responsibilities of adulthood.

(biblical) The first epistle of Peter, the twenty-first book of the New Testament of the Bible.

(biblical) The second epistle of Peter, the twenty-second book of the New Testament of the Bible.

plural of Peter Pan