Usually means: Charismatic leader luring followers away.
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  1. pied piper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pied piper: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pied Piper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pied piper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pied Piper: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pied Piper, pied piper: Vocabulary.com
  7. the Pied Piper (of Hamelin): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pied Piper, pied piper: Wiktionary
  9. Pied Piper: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pied piper: Dictionary.com
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  12. pied piper: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pied piper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Pied Piper: The Word Detective
  15. pied piper: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pied Piper: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pied piper: A Word A Day

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  1. pied piper: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Pied piper)

noun:  A folk tale or legend, dating back to the Middle Ages, about a rat-catcher in variegated attire, hired by the German town of Hamelin, who is not paid for his services and retaliates by luring away the local children by playing a flute.
noun:  The flute-playing rat-catcher who is the protagonist and title character of this story.
noun:  That which draws many in its wake.

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