“pip” – English explanatory dictionary

noun 1. a small seed in some fruits ○ Take out all the pips when you cut up the grapefruit. (NOTE: Fruits such as apples, pears, oranges and lemons all have pips.) 2. a star on the shoulder showing an officer’s rank ○ The three pips showed he was a captain. ■ verb to defeat someone (informal.) ○ She pipped me for first place. Synonym beat □ to pip someone at the post to beat someone at the last minute ○ He put on a final spurt and pipped me at the post.

n. [OE. pippe, D. pip, or F. pepie; from LL. pipita, fr. L. pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite.] A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a ´scale´ on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

n. [Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin.] (Bot.) A seed, as of an apple or orange.

n. [Perh. for pick, F. pique a spade at cards, a pike. Cf. Pique.] One of the conventional figures or ´spots´ on playing cards, dominoes, etc. Addison.

v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pipped p. pr. & vb. n. Pipping.] [See Peep.] To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. “To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg.” Boyle.