Meaning of fip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of fucking Illinois people, chiefly used by year-round inhabitants of tourist towns: a tourist (especially when wealthy) to southwestern Michigan or northwestern Indiana lakeshore towns from the Chicago area.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, derogatory
2. fippenny bit
   US, obsolete
3. Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“Some local teens have taken to calling the weekend tourists FIPs--short for "Fucking Illinois People." One can even buy a FIP T-shirt in, of all places, a New Buffalo clothing store owned by radio comedian Steve Dahl.”

“"They're FIPs," he said. "They hold their noses up in the air."”

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