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pippers

pippers is the plural of pipper.

Meaning of pipper

Noun (1)

pipper (plural pippers)

  1. (slang) A marker indicating the PIP (predicted impact point) on a head-up display.

Noun (2)

pipper (plural pippers)

  1. (in-compounds, slang) A person wearing the specific number of stars on the shoulder of their uniform, implying a particular rank.
    • Our caricaturist, Lieutenant Fred May, has this week specialised in “three pippers,” as all of the officers in the above collection, have attained to captain's rank, and have all, so we understand, been “through it" […]1918, The Tatler, volume 67, page 306

Questions about pippers

What is pippers the plural of?
Pippers is the plural of pipper.

Words near pippers in the dictionary

  1. Pippengers
  2. Pippens
  3. pipper
  4. pipperidge
  5. pipperidges
  6. pippers
  7. pippetting
  8. Pippi Longstocking
  9. Pippi Longstockings
  10. pippian
  11. pippians

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