pip

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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. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • "Well, pip-pip for the present," said Freddie, moving toward the box. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Gives me the pip, the way some of them make a fuss about it. —  Murder Must Advertise
  • Julia and Brian and the older kids had proved themselves more than capable of looking out for the pip-squeaks. —  Step on a Crack by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
  • I thought of saying toodle-pip, but he'd had enough disappointment in one visit. —  process 10
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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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