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Pip   /pɪp/   Listen
Pip

noun
1.
A disease of poultry.
2.
A minor nonspecific ailment.
3.
A small hard seed found in some fruits.
4.
A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit).  Synonym: spot.
5.
A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface.  Synonyms: blip, radar target.
verb
(past & past part. pipped; pres. part. pipping)
1.
Kill by firing a missile.  Synonym: shoot.
2.
Hit with a missile from a weapon.  Synonyms: hit, shoot.
3.
Defeat thoroughly.  Synonyms: mop up, rack up, whip, worst.



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"Pip" Quotes from Famous Books



... it a potato, and a grain of earth, and a down from a pillow, and a pearl, and an apple-pip from a pie. And when the spell was ready, he lay ...
— The Book of Stories for the Storyteller • Fanny E. Coe
... be my wife," he would entreat: "it is not knowing where I am that gives me the pip. If you consented, I should be as right as rain—your word is better to me than any Management's contract. I trust you—it is only myself that I doubt; every time you look at a man I wonder, 'Am ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... the Huns, and they kept sending over and down a continuous stream of "pip-squeaks", "whiz-bangs", and "minnies." The "pip-squeak" is a shell that starts with a silly "pip", goes on with a sillier "squeeeeee", and goes off with ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes
... river bottom. If that even had a prayer of working, I knew, he'd have had the trains of the Hudson & Manhattan stopped; their rumbling course through their tubes would have blanked out any possible echo-pip ...
— One-Shot • James Benjamin Blish
... Pip. s. A seed; applied to those seeds which have the shape of apple, cucumber seed, &c.; never to round, ...
— The Dialect of the West of England Particularly Somersetshire • James Jennings


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