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bip

bip verb: to make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound. Also the abbreviation of basis point.

Verb

bip (third-person singular simple present bips, present participle bipping, simple past and past participle bipped)

  1. (informal) To make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound.
    • Jihad Merhi bipped the horn as he pulled up in his Land Cruiser outside chez Lattouf.2011, David Cullen, The Byblos Discovery, page 275
  2. (informal, transitive) To hit lightly.
    • After the entire table burst into laughter, she playfully bipped the man in the mouth and followed it with a kiss.A. P. Vasko, 33 Miracles (page 188)
    • I swung the bat, barely bipped the ball, and sent it spinning off into a neighbor's yard. That was the closest I'd come to hitting that thing all day.2003, C. D. Blizzard, Broken
    Synonyms:
    bop, boop
  3. (California, slang, Bay Area) To break into a car and steal its contents.
    1. (California, broadly, slang, Bay Area) To rob; steal.
      • So many cars get bipped on that street.
      • Around Christmas of that year me and a friend was going to go up through Oklahoma bipping — scallybipping [burglarizing a house when they saw the wife out back hanging clothes], you know. We had been doing it around Houston, Dallas, places like that, but now we was going to go up through the States.1972, Bruce Jackson, In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, I.L.; San Francisco, C.A.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 82

Noun (1)

bip (plural bips)

  1. (California, slang, Bay Area) Synonym of spliff.
    • My niggas getting greasy with them licks, nigga
      But these free banks, I ain’t use no bip, nigga2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:34
    • You have your bip on you?
    • 'Cause if you ain't got no bip on you, I ain't hangin' out with you2022 March 11, “B$G Intro” (track 1, right in the beginning), in Baby Stone Gorillas (lyrics), BABYST5XNE GORILLAS
    Synonyms:
    spliff
  2. (slang, African-American Vernacular, Baltimore) Can refer to multiple different things, but usually refers to a piece that someone owns, most often a gun or a haircut.

Noun (2) capitalized: BIP

BIP (plural BIPs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of blunt impact projectile.

Proper noun capitalized: BIP

BIP

  1. (Botswana, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Botswana Independence Party.

Also used as

bip is also the abbreviation of basis point.

Synonyms of bip

Forms of bip

Verb
third-person singular presentbips
present participlebipping
past participlebipped
pastbipped
Noun
pluralbips
pluralBIPs

Origin of bip

Imitative.

Questions about bip

What does bip mean?
Bip means to make or cause to make a short beeping or blipping sound.
What part of speech is bip?
Bip can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of bip?
The past tense of bip is bipped.

Words near bip in the dictionary

  1. biozonal
  2. biozonation
  3. biozonations
  4. biozone
  5. biozones
  6. bip
  7. bipa
  8. bipack
  9. bipacked
  10. bipacking
  11. bipacks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bip (page history and authors); BIP (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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