Meaning of Pip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, Pippi and Philippa.
2. The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.
   UK, World-War-I, slang
3. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
4. A pippin, seed of any kind.
   obsolete
5. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
6. Initialism of picture-in-picture.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
7. 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.
8. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
9. Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical
10. Acronym of picture-in-picture.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
11. Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
    dated, humorous
12. 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
13. 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.
14. Acronym of predicted impact point.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
15. Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
    US, colloquial
16. A spot; a speck.
17. Acronym of performance improvement plan.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
18. P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
    British, World-War-I, dated
19. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
20. Acronym of product improvement program.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
21. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
22. Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
23. Acronym of personal independence payment.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1912, D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett I've got the pip horribly at present.”

“Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The pip wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.”

“With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the pip in any way.”

“So sorry that you caught the pip On our most recent northward trip But you'll be better soon I'm hopin' Cause with the mornings I'm not copin' Some nerve. Tell those nasty viruses to Bug off!”

““I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo. I mean, he's just kind of this fluttering lickspittle that is always bouncing about, always behind Nandor. But Nandor likes him.” “Oh, shut up, Colin Robinson. You're giving me the pip.””

“Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.”

“On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.”

“She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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