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  1. noun The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.
  2. transitive verb Chiefly British To wound or kill with a bullet.
  3. transitive verb Chiefly British To get the better of; defeat.
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  • The pip was a Class A, racing after the outgoing signal like a greyhound after a mechanical rabbit. —  The Martian Way
  • All of them could see that Nigel was no longer the same pip-pip, jolly-good fellow he'd been for God alone knew how many decades and centuries. —  The Dark Tower
  • That a pip is a seed may be confusing at first, but becomes obvious by the end of this fairy tale patterned on a classic motif. —  STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • A pip is a pip is a pip and it's all based on your trade and account size. —  Howard Lindzon
  • Pip-pip, cheerio, and all that rot. —  Run For The Money
 

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Etymologies (9)

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  1. Short for pippin.
  2. Possibly from pip3.
  3. Origin unknown.
  4. Variant of peep1 and peep2.
  5. Middle English pippe, from Middle Dutch, phlegm, pip, from Medieval Latin *pippīta, alteration of Latin pītuīta; see peiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also pipe, pype, from Middle English pippe, pyppe = MD, pippe, pipse, Dutch pip = Middle Low German pip, Low German pipp, pipps = Old High German phiphiz, pfipfis, Middle High German phippfesz, G. (obsolete) pfips, pfipps, Middle High German also pippusz, pippis, G. pips, pipps (after Low German) = Swedish pipp = Danish pip = French pepie = Provencal pepida = Spanish pepita = Portuguese pivide, pevide = Italian pipita, from Middle Latin pipita, pivita (after Roman), from Latin pituita, phlegm, rheum, slime, also the pip; prob., with loss of orig. s-, from spuere, past participle sputus, spew: see spew.
  2. Short for pippin.
  3. from pip, n.
  4. A variant of pipe, peep, in like sense.
 

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