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pip.

Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɪp/
  1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.

  2. A disease, malaise or depression in humans.

    dated · humorous
Where this word 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/pɪp/
  1. A pippin, seed of any kind.

    obsolete
  2. 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.

    UK · obsolete
    Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
  3. Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

    US · colloquial
  4. P in RAF phonetic alphabet.

    UK · World-War-I · dated
Where this word comes from

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

verb/pɪp/
  1. To remove the pips from.

    transitive
    Peel and pip the grapes.
Where this word comes from

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

noun/pɪp/
  1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.

  2. 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

Where this word comes from

Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

verb/pɪp/
  1. To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.

    transitive
    He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
  2. To hit with a gunshot.

    transitive
    The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
Where this word comes from

Origin uncertain; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

verb/pɪp/
  1. To peep, to chirp.

    intransitive
  2. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.

Where this word comes from

Imitative.

noun/pɪp/
  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.

Where this word comes from

Imitative.

noun/pɪp/
  1. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

Where this word comes from

Abbreviation of percentage in point.

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