pip

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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta.

Noun [edit]

pip (plural pips)

  1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. [from the 15th c.]
  2. (humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:
      With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin.

Noun [edit]

pip (plural pips)

  1. (obsolete) A pippin.
  2. A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as an peach, orange, or apple.
  3. (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 612:
      She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
  4. (UK, dated, WW I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
seed

Etymology 3 [edit]

Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

Noun [edit]

pip (plural pips)

  1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
  2. (military, public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
  3. A spot; a speck.
  4. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  5. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
Synonyms [edit]
  • (symbol on playing card etc): spot
Translations [edit]
dot, symbol on domino, die, etc.

Verb [edit]

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. To get the better of; to defeat
    He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
  2. To hit with a gunshot
    The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.

Etymology 4 [edit]

Imitative.

Verb [edit]

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. To peep, to chirp
  2. (avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg

Etymology 5 [edit]

Imitative.

Noun [edit]

pip (plural pips)

Examples
the sound of the BBC pips
(file)
  1. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment if he is to continue his call.
Synonyms [edit]
  • (electronic sound, counting down seconds): stroke
Translations [edit]
short electronically produced tone

Etymology 6 [edit]

Abbreviation of percentage in point.

Noun [edit]

pip (plural pips)

  1. (finance, currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

Related terms [edit]

Anagrams [edit]

Danish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /pip/, [pʰib̥]

Noun [edit]

pip n (singular definite pippet, plural indefinite pip)

  1. chirp, peep, tweet
  2. bleep

Inflection [edit]

    Inflection of pip
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative pip pippet pip pippene
genitive pips pippets pips pippenes

Noun [edit]

pip n

  1. nonsense, gibberish, madness

Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

pip

  1. rafsi of plipe.

Swedish [edit]

Noun [edit]

pip n

  1. squeak, beep

Declension [edit]

Declension of pip
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pip pipet pip pipen
genitive pips pipets pips pipens

Verb [edit]

pip

  1. imperative of pipa.
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