pip

Meanings

Noun

• Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
• Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
• A pippin, seed of any kind.
• Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
• P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
• One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
• 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
• 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 if he is to continue his call.
• The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

Verb

• To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
• To hit with a gunshot
• To peep, to chirp
• To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg

Related

Similar words

• spot
• stroke

Origin

• From Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch pip, from post-classical Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta ("mucus, phlegm, head cold"). pituita.
• Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin, from Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin ("a seed") (French pépin).
• Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.
• Imitative.
• Imitative.
• Abbreviation of percentage in point