pip meaning

Noun: pip  pip

1. A disease of poultry 
2. A minor nonspecific ailment 
3. A small hard seed found in some fruits 
4. A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
   - spot 
5. A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
   - blip, radar target

Verb: pip (pipped,pipping)  pip

1. Kill by firing a missile
   - shoot 
2. Hit with a missile from a weapon
   - shoot, hit 
3. Defeat thoroughly
   - worst, mop up, whip, rack up

Derived forms: pips, pipped, pipping

Type of: ailment, animal disease, beat, beat out, complaint, crush, ill, injure, kill, mark, marker, marking, radar echo, seed, shell, trounce, vanquish, wound

Part of: playing card

Encyclopedia: Pip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred

[American slang]
n. a pimple; a zit.
• Good grief, I've got ear-to-ear pips!
• Do you ever outgrow pips?

[British slang]
Verb. To defeat by a small margin. Often heard in the expression 'pip at the post'. E.g."We pipped them to the finish and won by just 2 seconds." {Informal}

[Economics]
The minimum price movement in a financial market, for example a basis point (0.01%) on foreign-exchange markets.

[Finance]
Used for listed equity securities. Smallest unit of a currency (i.e., cents for US dollars).

[Medicine]
n : the formation of a scale or crust on the tip and dorsal surface of the tongue of a bird often associated with respiratory diseases; also : the scale or crust itself

[Computer]
<tool> Peripheral Interchange Program.

A program on CP/M, RSX-11, RSTS/E, TOPS-10, and OS/8 (derived from a utility on the PDP-6) that was used for file copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file operation you might want to do). It is said that when the program was written, during the development of the PDP-6 in 1963, it was called ATLATL ("Anything, Lord, to Anything, Lord"; this played on the Nahuatl word "atlatl" for a spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity that were no doubt quite intentional).

See also BLT, dd, cat.

• pip-pip:    [British slang]Exc ...
• pip emma:     /pip emˈə/ (milit ...
• pip out:    Verb: pip outBe ki ...

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1. pip has earned a premium here.
2. now i'll tell you what i've got for supper, mr. pip.
3. would you believe that pip caraher is short of lemons-at this last minute.
4. apple is still a pip-squeak to the wintel goliath
5. i've had the pip since i came back from new york