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pip¹
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm, head cold”). Doublet of pituita.
noun the pip
- Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
- A disease, malaise or depression in humans. 1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present.
pip²
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin (“a seed”) (French pépin, q.v.).
noun pips
- A pippin, seed of any kind.
- 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.
- Something or someone excellent, of high quality. She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?
- P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
verb pips · pipping · pipped
- To remove the pips from. Peel and pip the grapes.
pip³
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.
noun pips
-
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
Similar: spot
- 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.
- A spot; a speck.
- A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
- A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
verb pips · pipping · pipped
-
To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.
He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
Similar: pip to the post
- To hit with a gunshot. The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
pip⁴
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Imitative.
verb pips · pipping · pipped
- To peep, to chirp.
- To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.
pip⁵
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Imitative.
noun pips
-
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.
Similar: stroke
pip⁶
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
Abbreviation of percentage in point.
noun pips
- 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.
Pip⁷
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
proper noun Pips
- 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.
Pip⁸
- /pɪp/
Rhymes with -ɪp
Where it comes from
An allusion to the newspaper cartoon strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.
proper noun
- The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.
PIP⁹
proper noun
- Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program
- Initialism of Portsmouth Independents Party
noun PIPs
- Acronym of picture-in-picture
- Acronym of predicted impact point
- Acronym of performance improvement plan
- Acronym of product improvement program
- Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure
- Acronym of personal independence payment
PiP10
noun PIP
- Initialism of picture-in-picture
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mop up, spot, whip, hit, shoot, worst, rack up, epp, hip, iep, peep, tip, snips, squeak, mou, dipshit
Translations
Every language
noun seed
| Español | pipa, pipo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 씨 ssi |
| 日本語 | 種 tane |
| 中文 | 果仁 guǒrén, 仁 rén |
| हिन्दी | बीज bīj |
| Português | caroço, semente |
| Français | pépin |
| Deutsch | Kern |
| Italiano | seme |
| Ελληνικά | κουκούτσι koukoútsi |
| Română | sâmbure, sămânță |
| Русский | ко́сточка kóstočka, зёрнышко zjórnyško, се́мечко sémečko |
| Tiếng Việt | hạt |
| العربية | عَجَمَة ʕajama, عَجَم ʕajam |
| עברית | חַרצָן khartsán |
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title = {pip},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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