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pip

/pɪp/

pip noun: any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.

pip: any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza
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Noun (1)

the pip

  1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
  2. (dated, humorous) A disease, malaise or depression in humans.
    • I've got the pip horribly at present.1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett
    • Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13

Noun (2)

pip (plural pips)

  1. (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
    1. (UK, obsolete) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits, such as the stone (pit) of a stonefruit or the smaller seeds of an orange or apple.
      • Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
      • On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and...1995, John Pairman Brown, Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 134
  2. (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
    • She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612
  3. (UK, World-War-I, dated) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.

Verb (1)

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. (transitive) To remove the pips from.
    • Peel and pip the grapes.

Noun (3)

pip (plural pips)

  1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
    Synonyms:
    spot
  2. (public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
  3. A spot; a speck.
  4. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
  5. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation

Verb (2)

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
    • He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
    • Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurs pipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number Conte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm.2022 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    pip to the post
  2. (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.
    • The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.

Verb (3)

pip (third-person singular simple present pips, present participle pipping, simple past and past participle pipped)

  1. (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.
  2. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.

Noun (4)

pip (plural pips)

  1. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
    • I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the pips for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter
    Synonyms:
    stroke

Noun (5)

pip (plural pips)

  1. (currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
    • The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 pips. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.2015, Abe Cofnas, “Trading Styles and Strategies”, in The Forex Trading Course: A Self-study Guide to Becoming a Successful Currency Trader, 2nd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part...

Proper noun (1) capitalized: PIP

PIP

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, historical) Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.
  2. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Portsmouth Independents Party.

Noun (6) capitalized: PIP

PIP (countable and uncountable, plural PIPs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of picture-in-picture.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of predicted impact point.
  3. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of performance improvement plan.
  4. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of product improvement program.
  5. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure.
  6. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of personal independence payment.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pip

Pip (plural Pips)

  1. A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, Pippi and Philippa.
    • My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter I, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 1

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Pip

Pip

  1. (UK, World-War-I, slang) The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.

Noun (7) capitalized: PiP

PiP (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of picture-in-picture.

pip meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

pip in Hindi

seed
बीज bīj

pip in Tamil

பிப்

pip in Marathi

पिप

pip in Urdu

seed
بیج bīj
More languagesFewer languages
pip in Bengali
বীজ bij
pip in Telugu
పిప్
pip in Malayalam
പിപ്, പിപ് ചെയ്യാൻ
pip in Kannada
ಪಿಪ್, ಪಿಪ್ಗೆ
pip in Punjabi
ਪਿਪ
pip in Gujarati
પિપ
pip in Odia
ପିପ୍
pip in Nepali
पिप गर्न
pip in Tagalog
buto
pip in Arabic
عَجَمَة ʕajama, عَجَم ʕajam
pip in Malay
biji
pip in Indonesian
biji
pip in Persian
دانه dâne
pip in Thai
เมล็ด má-lét
pip in Vietnamese
hạt
pip in Myanmar
အပွင့် a.pwang.

Examples of pip in a sentence

  • With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IV:
  • Some 28 percent said he was the best performer, pipping DeSantis by one point2023 August 24, Rob Crilly, “Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of...

All 26 example sentences with pip

Synonyms of pip

Forms of pip

Noun
pluralpips
pluralPIPs
alternative formPIP
Verb
third-person singular presentpips
present participlepipping
past participlepipped
pastpipped
Proper noun
pluralPips

Plural of pip: pips

Origin of pip

From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.

Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin, q.v.).

Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

Words formed from pip

Words that rhyme with pip

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Questions about pip

What does pip mean?
Pip means any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
What is pip in Hindi?
Pip in Hindi is बीज (bīj). See Pip meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pip in a sentence?
With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.
What part of speech is pip?
Pip can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pip?
Pip is pronounced /pɪp/.
What is the plural of pip?
The plural of pip is pips.

Words near pip in the dictionary

  1. pious fraud
  2. pious frauds
  3. piously
  4. piousness
  5. piousnesses
  6. pip
  7. pip at the post
  8. pip emma
  9. pip pip
  10. pip pip pip
  11. pip to the post

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pip (page history and authors); PIP (page history and authors); Pip (page history and authors); PiP (page history and authors); pip (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pip (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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