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fip

US/fɪp/

fip noun: fippenny bit.

Noun (1)

fip (plural fips)

  1. (US, obsolete) fippenny bit

Noun (2) capitalized: FIP

FIP (plural FIPs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, countable, derogatory, Michigan, Northwest Indiana) Acronym of fucking Illinois people, chiefly used by year-round inhabitants of tourist towns: a tourist (especially when wealthy) to southwestern Michigan or northwestern Indiana lakeshore towns from the Chicago area.
    • Some local teens have taken to calling the weekend tourists FIPs--short for "Fucking Illinois People." One can even buy a FIP T-shirt in, of all places, a New Buffalo clothing store owned by radio comedian Steve Dahl.1988, Hank De Zutter, Pamela Little De Zutter, “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan”, in Chicago Reader
    • "They're FIPs," he said. "They hold their noses up in the air."1992, Peter Kendall, “Michigan Residents Resist Letting Their Beach Towns Become Illinois”, in Chicago Tribune
  2. (abbreviation, acronym, uncountable) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.

Forms of fip

pluralfips
pluralFIPs

Origin of fip

Shortening.

Questions about fip

What does fip mean?
Fip means fippenny bit.
What part of speech is fip?
Fip is a noun.
How do you pronounce fip?
Fip is pronounced /fɪp/ (US).
What is the plural of fip?
The plural of fip is fips.

Words near fip in the dictionary

  1. fioriture
  2. FiOS
  3. fios de ovos
  4. Fiot
  5. Fiote
  6. fip
  7. Fipa
  8. fipamezole
  9. fipennies
  10. fipenny
  11. fipexide

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