pip

/pɪp/ · noun

Meaning

Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
A pippin, seed of any kind.
Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
(WW I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
(public service) One of the stars worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.
A spot; a speck.
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
To hit with a gunshot
To peep, to chirp
(avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
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 if he is to continue his call.
(currency trading) The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.

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