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pip 1 Noun the seed of a fleshy fruit, such as an apple or pear [short for pippin] pip 2 Noun 1. a short high-pitched sound used as a time signal on radio 2. any of the spots on a playing card, dice, or domino 3. Informal the emblem worn on the shoulder by junior officers in the British Army, indicating their rank [imitative] pip 3 Noun 1. a contagious disease of poultry 2. Facetious slang a minor human ailment 3. give someone the pip Brit, NZ & S African slang to annoy someone: it really gives me the pip 4. get or have the pip NZ slang to sulk [Middle Dutch pippe] pip 4 Verb [pipping, pipped] pip someone at the post Brit & NZ slang to defeat someone whose success seems certain [probably from pip2]
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Translations pip [pɪp] n [of apple, orange] → Kern m vt to be pipped at the post (Brit) (fig); um Haaresbreite geschlagen werden; the pips npl (Brit) (Radio) → das Zeitzeichen n pip [pip] a seed of a fruit an orange/apple pip. pit بِذْرَه семка jádro frø der Kern κουκούτσι pepita seeme هسته کوچک siemen pépin חַרצָן चिड़चिड़ापन sjemenka (gyümölcs)mag biji steinn, lítið fræ seme 種 (과일의) 씨 sėkla, kauliukas (augļa) sēkla; kauliņš biji pit kjerne pestka caroço sâmbure; sămânţă косточка, семечко jadro, jadierko pečka semenka kärna เมล็ดพันธุ์ çekirdek 果仁 кісточка, зернина بيج hột, hạt 果仁 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation. It's a pity, but nothing goes right this week, and Pip has had the worst of the experiment. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. |
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