pip

1 a disease of poultry

2 a minor nonspecific ailment

3 a small hard seed found in some fruits

4 a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn: spot]

5 a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface [syn: blip, radar target]

1 kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot]

2 hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit]

3 defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" [syn: worst, mop up, whip, rack up] [also: pipping, pipped]

see Pip

English

Pronunciation

• , /pɪp/, /pIp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle pip, from post-classical pipita.

Noun

1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
2. Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.

Etymology 2

Apparently representing a shortened form of pippin.

Noun

1. A pippin.
2. A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as an apple or orange.
3. In the context of "US|colloquial": Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 612:

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

Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain, perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

Noun

1. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die etc.
2. One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank.

Synonyms

• (symbol on playing card etc): spot

Translations

Verb

1. To get the better of or defeat

   He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.

Etymology 4

Imitative.

Noun

1. One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to indicate 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 they are to continue their call.

Synonyms

• (electronic sound): (counting down seconds) stroke

Translations

Etymology 5

Noun

1. In the context of "finance|currency trading": The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

Related terms

• pip at the post
• pipsqueak
• give the pip to

Swedish

Noun

1. squeak, beep

Verb

Pip may refer to:

Noun and name

People

• Pip, any of the backup singers for Gladys Knight in the American R&B group Gladys Knight & the Pips, active from 1953 to 1989
• Pip, short for Philip Pirrip, the name given by Charles Dickens to the protagonist of the semi-autobiographical novel Great Expectations
• Pip (South Park), a recurring South Park character, clearly inspired by the Dickens character (see above)
• Pip (South Park episode), an episode of South Park, in which Pip is the main character
• Pip the Troll, Adam Warlock's friend in Marvel Comics
• Pip, the hero and playing character of the Grailquest gamebooks
• Francis "Pip" Pumphandle, a one-shot character on Animaniacs, voiced by Ben Stein
• Pip (Chrono Cross), a character from the SquareSoft RPG Chrono Cross
• Pip (minidrag), the pet of Flinx from the Humanx Commonwealth science fiction novels
• Pip, the cabin boy of the Pequod in the novel Moby-Dick
• Pip, nickname of Chiana on the television series, Farscape.
• Pip, Pip Williams the British record producer
• Pip, a character in the Japanese manga Hellsing
• Pip, a fictional persona created by Tori Amos on her album American Doll Posse, her embodiment of Athena

Numerics and counting

• Pip, a dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes
• Pip, a mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card
• Pip in forex trading is the smallest unit by which a currency may change value
• Pip, The distance between 2 spaces on a Backgammon board.

Rank insignia

• Pip, an informal name for the star of the Order of the Bath when used as a rank insignia in the British army and police force

Other

• Pip, the seed of several fruits such as apples and oranges
• Pip, the Greenwich Time Signal
• Peripheral Interchange Program or PIP, the file copy program for CP/M and PDP-11 computers, which was replaced by COPY in MS-DOS
• In Praise of Pip an episode from The Twilight Zone

Acronym

PIP is a three letter acronym with numerous meanings. It may refer to:

Political Parties

• Puerto Rican Independence Party

Computer technology

• Parallel interface port
• Peripheral Interchange Program (PDP, VAX, CP/M)
• Prefix, infix and postfix mathematical notations
• Point in polygon algorithm (computer graphics)
• Private IP
• Personal Identity Provider, another term for OpenID provider.
• Priority inheritance protocol

Biology and medicine

• Peak Inspiratory Pressure
• Phosphatidylinositol
• Prolactin-induced protein
• Proximal interphalangeal joint

Other

• Palisades Interstate Parkway, a parkway in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York
• Personal injury protection, an extension of car insurance available in some American states, which covers medical expenses, lost wages and other damages.
• Performance improvement plan
• Picture-in-picture, feature from some televisions.
• Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition (Economics)
• Predicted impact point (missiles)
• Process Industry Practices, Chemical process industry standardized requirement specifications and guidelines (e.g.: Petrochemical)
• Profile ignition pickup
• Royal Mail's Pricing in Proportion initiative
• Pug Impression Pad (Wildlife: Pugmark Tracking)
• Partner Interface Processes (Rosettanet)

See also

• Pips (disambiguation)

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