noun
the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning
• Syn: ↑Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑fictional character, ↑fictitious character, ↑character
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a person who persuades a lot of other people to follow them or do sth with them
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Madonna is fashion's Pied Piper. She leads while the rest of us can only follow.
From the old German story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who made first rats and later children follow him by playing beautiful music on his pipe.Useful english dictionary. 2012.