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Interjection

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pip pip pip

  1. Imitative of the sounds of the British speaking clock.
    • 1937, Alan Patrick Herbert, Sip! Swallow!, London: Methuen and Company, page 13:
      And the Silver Secretary would say very sweetly: 'PIP PIP PIP AT THE THRID STROKE HE WILL BE IN CONFERENCE PIP PIP PIP HE IS NOW IN CONFERENCE