pip

See also Pip, PIP, and pip pip

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin.

Noun

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
Translations
seed

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

Noun

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
  • (symbol on playing card etc): spot
Translations
dot, symbol on domino, die, etc.

Verb

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

Imitative.

Verb

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

Imitative.

Noun

pip (plural pips)

  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
  • (electronic sound, counting down seconds): stroke
Translations
short electronically produced tone

Etymology 6

Abbreviation of percentage in point.

Noun

pip (plural pips)

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

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Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pip/, [pʰib̥]

Noun

pip n (singular definite pippet, plural indefinite pip)

  1. chirp, peep, tweet
  2. bleep

Inflection

    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

pip n

  1. nonsense, gibberish, madness
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Lojban

Rafsi

pip

  1. rafsi of plipe.
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Swedish

Noun

pip n

  1. squeak, beep

Declension

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

Verb

pip

  1. imperative of pipa.
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