Usually means: Stimulates interest or provokes curiosity.
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  1. piques: Merriam-Webster
  2. piques, piques: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. piques: Collins English Dictionary
  4. piques: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pique's, Piques, piques: Wordnik
  6. piques: Wiktionary
  7. piques: Dictionary.com
  8. piques: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. piques: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. piques: Legal dictionary

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  1. piques: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pique)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
verb:  To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
verb:  (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
verb:  (reflexive, obsolete) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To take pride in.
verb:  To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.
noun:  (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
noun:  (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
noun:  (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
verb:  (ambitransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
noun:  (obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
noun:  (pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”)
noun:  (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”) [(sewing) A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.]
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