pip

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

pip, n. [OE. pippe, D. pip, or F. pépie; from LL. pipita, fr. L. pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite.].

 A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a “scale” on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.  [1913 Webster]

pip, n. [Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin.].

 A seed, as of an apple or orange.  [1913 Webster]

pip, n. [Perh. for pick, F. pique a spade at cards, a pike. Cf. Pique.].

 One of the conventional figures or “spots” on playing cards, dominoes, etc.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

pip, v. i. [See Peep.].

 To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.  [1913 Webster]
"To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pip, n. & v.
--n. the seed of an apple, pear, orange, grape, etc.
--v.tr. (pipped, pipping) remove the pips from (fruit etc.).

Derivative

pipless adj.

pip, n. Brit. a short high-pitched sound, usu. mechanically produced, esp. as a radio time signal.

pip, n.
1 any of the spots on a playing-card, dice, or domino.
2 Brit. a star (1-3 according to rank) on the shoulder of an army officer's uniform.
3 a single blossom of a clustered head of flowers.
4 a diamond-shaped segment of the surface of a pineapple.
5 an image of an object on a radar screen.

pip, n.
1 a disease of poultry etc. causing thick mucus in the throat and white scale on the tongue.
2 colloq. a fit of disgust or bad temper (esp. give one the pip).

pip, v.tr. (pipped, pipping) Brit. colloq.
1 hit with a shot.
2 defeat.
3 blackball.

Idiom

pip at the post defeat at the last moment. pip out die.

Etymology

PIP(2) or PIP(1)

THESAURUS

pip

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