Definitions
Wiktionary
- interj. UK, informal, dated goodbye
Etymologies
- Imitative of a short, high sound made by a bicycle or car horn. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: It could have been a bunch of pip-pip, stiff-upper-lip Brit blather about a stuttering king who learns to stop worrying and love the microphone.”
“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.”
“Well, pip-pip for the present," said Freddie, moving toward the box.”
“He can easily outdistance his pursuers, but is content to keep a lead of a few feet, crying _pip-pip_ or”
“Jungle King casts you as Tarzan, Jungle Hunt as some pip-pip old bean of a British safari chap, but they're the same game underneath By Jean Riva”
“To have such a magnificent device in 2009 would be ever so pip-pip hooray in passing the time.”
“The pip-pip! business is actually his natural mode of speech, and for the life of him he can't understand why the other two use it and find it humorous.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pip-pip’.
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Palindromes
tenet, �?ΙΨΟ�? Α�?ΟΜΗΜΑΤ..., rotator, kayak, tattarrattat, detartrated, racecar, level, step on no pets, fall leaves after..., level, madam, level!, reviver and 108 more...
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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Hyphenated Repeats
Exactly reduplicated words connected by a hyphen.
aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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ffwordes
Words gleaned from the works of Jasper Fforde.
the big over easy, nursery crime div..., mary mary, dci friedland chymes, amazing crime sto..., the mystery of th..., the poisoned shoe, the sign of three..., inspector moose, detective inspect..., clear-up rate, sleuth illustrated and 796 more...
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