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Definition of Pip

1. Verb. Kill by firing a missile. "They want to pip the prisoners "

2. Noun. A disease of poultry.

3. Verb. Hit with a missile from a weapon.

4. Noun. A minor nonspecific ailment.

5. Verb. Defeat thoroughly. "The fighter managed to pip his opponent"; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"

6. Noun. A small hard seed found in some fruits.

7. Noun. A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit).

8. Noun. A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface.

Definition of Pip

1. n. A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

2. n. A seed, as of an apple or orange.

3. n. One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.

4. v. i. To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.

Definition of Pip

1. Abbreviation. (television) picture-in-picture - A television technology allowing a second channel to be displayed in a small rectangle as an onscreen overlay over the primary channel being displayed. ¹

2. Proper noun. A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, and Philippa. ¹

3. Noun. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza. (defdate from the 15th c.) ¹

4. Noun. (humorous) Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) A pippin. ¹

6. Noun. A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as an peach, orange, or apple. ¹

7. Noun. (US colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality. ¹

8. Noun. (British dated WW I signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet ¹

9. Noun. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc. ¹

10. Noun. (military public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman. ¹

11. Noun. A spot; a speck. ¹

12. Noun. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip. ¹

13. Noun. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation ¹

14. Verb. To get the better of; to defeat ¹

15. Verb. To hit with a gunshot ¹

16. Verb. To peep, to chirp ¹

17. Verb. (context: avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg ¹

18. Noun. 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. ¹

19. Noun. (context: finance currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pip

1. to break through the shell of an egg [v PIPPED, PIPPING, PIPS]

Medical Definition of Pip

1. A contagious disease of fowls, characterised by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them. Origin: OE. Pippe, D. Pip, or F. Pepie; from LL. Pipita, fr. L. Pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite. A seed, as of an apple or orange. Origin: Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pip

piosity piot pioted piots pious pious fiction pious fraud pious platitude piously piousness

piousnesses pioy pioye pioyes pioys pip (current term) pip-squeak pip-squeaks pip emma pip out

pip pip pip to the post pipa pipage pipages pipal pipal tree pipals pipamazine pipamperone

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