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pip

1  [pip]
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–noun
1. one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
2. each of the small segments into which the surface of a pineapple is divided.
3. Informal. metal insigne of rank on the shoulders of commissioned officers.
4. Horticulture.
a. an individual rootstock of a plant, esp. of the lily of the valley.
b. a portion of the rootstock or root of several other plants, as the peony.
Origin:
1590–1600; earlier peep; orig. uncert.
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2  [pip]
–noun
1. Veterinary Pathology. a contagious disease of birds, esp. poultry, characterized by the secretion of a thick mucus in the mouth and throat.
2. Facetious. any minor or unspecified ailment in a person.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME pippe < MD < VL *pipita, for L pītuīta phlegm, pip

pip

3  [pip]
–noun
1. a small seed, esp. of a fleshy fruit, as an apple or orange.
2. Also called pipperoo. Informal. someone or something wonderful: Last night's party was a pip.
Origin:
1590–1600; 1910–15 for def. 2; short for pippin

pip

4  [pip] verb, pipped, pip⋅ping.
–verb (used without object)
1. to peep or chirp.
2. (of a young bird) to break out from the shell.
–verb (used with object)
3. to crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird.
Origin:
1650–60; var. of peep 2

pip

5  [pip]
–noun Electronics.
blip (def. 1).
Origin:
1940–45; imit.

pip

6  [pip]
–verb (used with object), pipped, pip⋅ping. British Slang.
1. to blackball.
2. to defeat (an opponent).
3. to shoot, esp. to wound or kill by a gunshot.
Origin:
1875–80; perh. special use of pip 1 , in metaphorical sense of a small ball

Pip

  [pip]
–noun
a male given name, form of Philip.

blip

  [blip] noun, verb, blipped, blip⋅ping.
–noun
1. Also called pip. Electronics.
a. a spot of light on a radar screen indicating the position of a plane, submarine, or other object.
b. (loosely) any small spot of light on a display screen.
2. a brief upturn, as in revenue or income: The midwinter blip was no cause for optimism among store owners.
3. anything small, as in amount or number: a blip of light; Those opposed were merely a blip in the opinion polls.
4. bleep (def. 3).
5. Slang. a nickel; five cents.
6. Movies. a mark of synchronization on a sound track.
7. a small or brief interruption, as in the continuity of a motion-picture film or the supply of light or electricity: There were blips in the TV film where the commercials had been edited out.
–verb (used without object)
8. Informal. to move or proceed in short, irregular, jerking movements: The stock market has blipped one point higher this week.
–verb (used with object)
9. bleep (def. 5).
Origin:
1890–95, for an earlier sense; sound symbolism, with p for brevity and abrupt end of the impulse; bl- perh. from blink
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blip   (blĭp)   
n.  

  1. A spot of light on a radar or sonar screen indicating the position of a detected object, such as an aircraft or a submarine. Also called pip3.

  2. A high-pitched electronic sound; a bleep.

  3. A transient sharp upward or downward movement, as on a graph.

  4. A temporary or insignificant phenomenon, especially a brief departure from the normal: "The decline in the share of GNP going to health . . . appears to be a one-time blip in the historic trend rather than the start of a new trend" (Atlantic).

tr.v.   blipped, blip·ping, blips
To bleep.

[Imitative.]
pip 1   (pĭp)   
n.  The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.

[Short for pippin.]
pip 2   (pĭp)   
tr.v.   pipped, pip·ping, pips Chiefly British

  1. To wound or kill with a bullet.

  2. To get the better of; defeat.

  3. To blackball.


[Possibly from pip3.]
pip 3   (pĭp)   
n.  

  1. Games

    1. A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes.

    2. A mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card.

  2. A spot or speck.

  3. A rootstock of certain flowering plants, especially the lily of the valley.

  4. Any of the small segments that make up the surface of a pineapple.

  5. Informal A shoulder insignia indicating the rank of certain officers, as in the British Army.

  6. See blip.


[Origin unknown.]
pip 4   (pĭp)   
v.   pipped, pip·ping, pips

v.   tr.
To break through (the shell) in hatching. Used of a chick.
v.   intr.
To peep or chirp, as a chick does.
n.  A short, high-pitched radio signal.

[Variant of peep1 and peep2.]
pip 5   (pĭp)   
n.  

    1. A disease of birds, characterized by a thick mucous discharge that forms a crust in the mouth and throat.

    2. The crust symptomatic of this disease.

  2. Slang A minor unspecified human ailment.


[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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Slang Dictionary
blip [blɪp]

  1. n.
    an intermittently appearing light on a radar screen. : A blip caught the controller's eye for an instant.
  2. n.
    anything quick and insignificant; a onetime thing of little importance. : It was nothing, just a blip. The press blew it out of proportion.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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pip

  1. n.
    a pimple; a zit. : Good grief, I've got ear-to-ear pips!
  2. n.
    postindustrial person. (Usually PIP. Acronym. A cynical reference to a person as a member of a group that has become useless because of technological change.) : The world really doesn't really need more PIPs, except as consumers, of course.
  3. n.
    illness; a mild, nonspecific disorder. (Old colloquial.) : Grandpa's complaining again. Says it's the pip.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

blip 
1894, of echoic origin. Radar screen sense is from 1945.

pip  (1)
"seed of an apple," 1797, shortened form of pipin "seed of a fleshy fruit" (c.1300), from O.Fr. pepin (13c.), probably from a root *pipp-, expressing smallness (cf. It. pippolo, Sp. pepita "seed, kernel").

pip  (2)
"disease of birds," c.1420, probably from M.Du. pippe "mucus," from W.Gmc. *pipit (cf. E.Fris. pip, M.H.G. pfipfiz, Ger. pips), an early borrowing from V.L. *pippita, from L. pituita "phlegm."

pip  (3)
"spot on a playing card, etc." 1596, peep, of unknown origin. Because of the original form, it is not considered as connected to pip (1).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

Pip

The smallest denomination that a currency can make.

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For example, the smallest move the USD/CAD currency pair can make is $0.0001, or one basis point.

See also: Currency, Performance Index Paper (PIP)

Also spelled: pips

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pip
Pronunciation: 'pip
Function: noun
: the formation of a scale or crust on the tip and dorsal surface of the tongue of a bird often associatedwith respiratory diseases; also : the scale or crust itself
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

PIP 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.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-03-28)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
PIP

  1. picture [with]in picture

  2. program implementation plan

  3. proximal interphalangeal [joint]

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