pip

The definition of pip is a small seed, or the dots on dice or dominoes, or the figures that show the suit or value on playing cards.

(noun)

  1. An example of a pip is an apple seed.
  2. An example of a pip is a heart on the 2 of hearts playing card.

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See pip in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. a small seed, as of an apple, pear, or orange
  2. Slang a person or thing much admired

Origin: contr. < pippin

noun

  1. any of the suit-indicating figures on playing cards, or any of the dots on dice or dominoes
  2. Informal a starlike shoulder insignia worn by certain officers in the British army
  3. any of the diamond-shaped divisions of the skin of a pineapple
  4. a single rootstock or flower of the lily of the valley, peony, etc.
  5. blip ()

Origin: earlier peep < ?

intransitive verb pipped, pipping

to peep or chirp, as a young bird

Origin: var. of peep

transitive verb

to break through (the shell): said of a hatching bird

noun

  1. a contagious disease of fowl, characterized by the secretion of mucus in the throat and the formation of a scab on the tongue
  2. Informal any unspecified human ailment: a jocular usage

Origin: ME pippe < MDu < WGmc *pipit < VL *pipita, for L pituita, phlegm, pip: see pituitary

transitive verb pipped, pipping

Brit. to defeat in a competition by a narrow margin

See pip in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.

Origin:

Origin: Short for pippin

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transitive verb pipped pipped, pip·ping, pips
Chiefly British
  1. To wound or kill with a bullet.
  2. To get the better of; defeat.
  3. To blackball.

Origin:

Origin: Possibly from pip3

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noun
  1. Games
    a. A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes.
    b. A mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card.
  2. A spot or speck.
  3. A rootstock of certain flowering plants, especially the lily of the valley.
  4. Any of the small segments that make up the surface of a pineapple.
  5. Informal A shoulder insignia indicating the rank of certain officers, as in the British Army.
  6. See blip.

Origin:

Origin: Origin unknown

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verb pipped pipped, pip·ping, pips
verb, transitive
To break through (the shell) in hatching. Used of a chick.
verb, intransitive
To peep or chirp, as a chick does.
noun
A short, high-pitched radio signal.

Origin:

Origin: Variant of peep1

Origin: and peep2

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noun
  1. a. A disease of birds, characterized by a thick mucous discharge that forms a crust in the mouth and throat.
    b. The crust symptomatic of this disease.
  2. Slang A minor unspecified human ailment.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English pippe

Origin: , from Middle Dutch, phlegm, pip

Origin: , from Medieval Latin *pippīta

Origin: , alteration of Latin pītuīta; see peiə- in Indo-European roots

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