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noun

Pip n. 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.

Pip n. (Bot.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.

Pip n. One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.

verb

Pip v. i. (past & past part. pipped; pres. part. pipping) To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. "To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg."

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Etymology of 'Pip'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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