1. pip(n = noun.state) - a disease of poultry;
is a kind of animal disease
2. pip(n = noun.state) - a minor nonspecific ailment;
is a kind of ailment, complaint, ill
3. pip(n = noun.plant) - a small hard seed found in some fruits;
is a kind of seed
4. pip(n = noun.communication) spot - a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit);
is a kind of mark, marker, marking
is a part of playing card
5. pip(n = noun.communication) blip, radar target - a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface;
is a kind of radar echo
1. pip(v = verb.social) shoot - kill by firing a missile;
is one way to kill
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
2. pip(v = verb.competition) hit, shoot - hit with a missile from a weapon;
is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
3. pip(v = verb.competition) mop up, rack up, whip, worst - defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentences:
The fighter managed to pip his opponent
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. [1913 Webster]
A seed, as of an apple or orange. [1913 Webster]
One of the conventional figures or “spots” on playing cards, dominoes, etc. Addison. [1913 Webster]
To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. [1913 Webster]
"To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg." [1913 Webster]
pip, n. & v.
--n. the seed of an apple, pear, orange, grape, etc.
--v.tr. (pipped, pipping) remove the pips from (fruit etc.).
Derivative:
pipless adj.
pip, n. Brit. a short high-pitched sound, usu. mechanically produced, esp. as a radio time signal.
pip, n.
1 any of the spots on a playing-card, dice, or domino.
2 Brit. a star (1-3 according to rank) on the shoulder of an army officer's uniform.
3 a single blossom of a clustered head of flowers.
4 a diamond-shaped segment of the surface of a pineapple.
5 an image of an object on a radar screen.
pip, n.
1 a disease of poultry etc. causing thick mucus in the throat and white scale on the tongue.
2 colloq. a fit of disgust or bad temper (esp. give one the pip).
pip, v.tr. (pipped, pipping) Brit. colloq.
1 hit with a shot.
2 defeat.
3 blackball.
Idiom:
pip at the post defeat at the last moment. pip out die.
Etymology:
PIP(2) or PIP(1)