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pip

noun

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

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 ()

intransitive verb pipped, pipping

to peep or chirp, as a young bird

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

transitive verb pipped, pipping

Brit. to defeat in a competition by a narrow margin

See pip in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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