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pips

/pɪps/

pips is the plural of pip.

Meaning of pip

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

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.
  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.

See all 20 meanings of pip

Proper noun (1)

the pips

  1. (informal) The Greenwich Time Signal.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: PIPS

PIPS

  1. (Pakistan, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Pakistan International Public School and College
  2. (Pakistan, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Pips

the Pips

  1. (informal) The Greenwich Time Signal.
  2. A backing group for Gladys Knight.

Noun capitalized: PIPs

PIPs

  1. (plural) plural of PIP

Phrases with pips

Words that rhyme with pips

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Questions about pips

What does pips mean?
Pips means the Greenwich Time Signal.
What is pips the plural of?
Pips is the plural of pip.
What part of speech is pips?
Pips can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce pips?
Pips is pronounced /pɪps/.

Words near pips in the dictionary

  1. piprid
  2. piprids
  3. piprinhydrinate
  4. piprites
  5. piprofurol
  6. pips
  7. pips at the post
  8. pips to the post
  9. pipsissewa
  10. pipsissewas
  11. pipsqueak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pips (page history and authors); PIPS (page history and authors); Pips (page history and authors); PIPs (page history and authors); pip (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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