pip

noun

1. Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
2. (dated, humorous)A disease, malaise or depression in humans.

   “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.””

3. (obsolete)A pippin, seed of any kind.
4. (UK, obsolete)A pippin, seed of any kind.

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

5. (US, colloquial)Something or someone excellent, of high quality.

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

6. (British, World-War-I, dated)P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
7. One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
8. 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.
9. A spot; a speck.
10. A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
11. A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
12. 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.

    “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.”

13. The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

    “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.”

14. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of picture-in-picture.
15. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of predicted impact point.
16. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of performance improvement plan.
17. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of product improvement program.
18. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of peak inspiratory pressure.
19. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of personal independence payment.
20. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of picture-in-picture.

verb

1. (transitive)To remove the pips from.

   “Peel and pip the grapes.”

2. (transitive)To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.

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

   “Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurs pipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number Conte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm.”

   “Some 28 percent said he was the best performer, pipping DeSantis by one point”

3. (transitive)To hit with a gunshot.

   “The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.”

4. (intransitive)To peep, to chirp.
5. To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.

name

1. A diminutive form of the given names Philip, Phillip, Pippi and Philippa.

   “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.”

2. (UK, World-War-I, slang)The 1914 Star or 1914–15 Star medal.
3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical)Acronym of Peripheral Interchange Program.