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▪ I. pip, n.1|pɪp|
Forms: 5–6 pyppe, 5–7 pippe, 6 pype, 6–7 pipe, pipp, 6– pip.
[app. a. MDu. pippe (pipse), Du. pip = MLG., EFris. pip, LG. pipp, Ger. pips, pipps from LG., formerly pfipps, pfipfs, OHG., MHG. pfiffiz, pfiffiȥ, pfipfiȥ = WG. type *pipit, a. pop.Lat. pīpīta, pipīta, whence also Sard. pibida, Cat. pebida Rhæt. pivida, Lomb. pevida, puvida, püida, Pg. pivide, pevide, and (of learned or semi-popular origin), It. pipita, Sp. pepita, Pr. pepida, F. pepie, pépie. Pop.L. pipīta appears to have been an unexplained alteration of pītuīta in same sense.]
a. A disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by the secretion of a thick mucus in the mouth and throat, often with the formation of a white scale on the tip of the tongue (hence sometimes applied to this scale itself). Also, a similar disease of hawks.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 589 Other while an hen wul ha the pippe, A whit pilet that wul the tonge enrounde. c1440Promp. Parv. 401/1 Pyppe, sekenesse, pituita. 1530Palsgr. 254/2 Pyppe a sickenesse, pepye. Ibid. 658/1 I pyppe a henne or a capon, I take the pyppe from them, je prens la pepie dune geline or dung chapon. 1551Turner Herbal i. B v, Garlyke..is also good for the pype or roupe of hennes and cockes, as Pliny wryteth. 1575Turberv. Falconrie 294 Sometimes also the pip in their tungs. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 141 The Pippe is a white thin scale, growing on the tippe of the tongue, and will make Poultrie they cannot feede. 1781Cowper Conversation 356 Faint as a chicken's note that has the pip. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 274 A thousand pips eat up your sparrowhawk!
b. Applied vaguely (usually more or less humorously) to various diseases in human beings.
c1460Play Sacram. 525, I haue a master: I wolld he had y⊇ pyppe. 1553Respublica iii. iii. 742 Bee thei gone? fare well theye, god sende them bothe the pippe. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 78 margin, Beware the Spanish pip. 1591Greene Art Conny Catch. ii. (1592) 17 Sometimes they catch such a spanish pip, that they haue no more hair on their heads, then on their nailes. 1697Vanbrugh Relapse iii. ii. 302 I'll let you know enough to prevent any wise woman's dying of the pip. 1708S. Centlivre Busie Body iv. iv, No, no, Hussy; you have the Green-Pip already, I'll have no more Apothecary's Bills. 1862Thackeray Philip xxvii, The children ill with the pip, or some confounded thing. 1864Huxley in Life (1900) I. xviii. 250 We are all well, barring..various forms of infantile pip.
c. Ill humour or poor health, esp. in colloq. phrs. to have (or get) the pip, to be depressed, despondent, or unwell; to give (someone) the pip, to annoy or irritate, to make (someone) ill-tempered or dispirited.
1886–96in Farmer & Henley Slang (1902) V. 210/2 It cost a bit to square up the attack; For the landlord had the pip. 1896A. Beardsley Let. c 17 Sept. (1971) 165 Are you suffering with a south-west wind in London? It prevails here utterly and has given me the pip. 1903Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 55 What's an admiral after all?.. Why, 'e's only a post-captain with the pip. 1913Punch 15 Oct. 324/3 [His] later works gave him the pure pip. 1923Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iii. 36 If there's one thing that gives me the pip, it's unpleasantness in the home. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ix. 440 A proper old Jonah you're turning into! You give me the pip, Dad, honestly you do. 1932A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms 31, I feel rotten to-day. I'm not ill, but I've just got the pip, that's all. 1934J. Rhys Voy. in Dark i. iv. 53, I thought there was something about this place that gave me the pip. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 20 Dear-o-dear, he fair gave me the pip. Talk about gloom! 1949N. Marsh Swing, Brother, Swing xii. 285 The Judges' Rules..may be enlightened but there are times when they give you the pip. 1962Friend 3 Aug. 962/1 The signpost to the safe way forward: ‘true moral simplicity’. It just about gives me the pip. 1976Scotsman 24 Dec. (Weekend Suppl.) 1/5, I feel it's my duty but I'm not keen. My grandchildren give me the pip.
▪ II. pip, n.2
Forms: 6–7 peepe, 7 (9 dial.) peep, 7– pip.
[Originally peep, which is still widely used in midland dialects; with the shortening of peep to pip, cf. the dial. ship for sheep. Origin of peep unknown. (Not from pip n.3 in sense ‘seed of apple, etc.’, which is not known till late in 18th c.)]
1. a. Each of the spots on playing-cards, dice, or dominoes.
α1604Middleton Father Hubbard's T. Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 84 Like a blank die—the one having no black peeps. 1648Herrick Hesper., Oberon's Palace 49 Those picks or diamonds in the card; With peeps of harts, of club and spade, Are here most neatly inter-laid.
β1674Cotton Compl. Gamester xii. 121 At Fench-Ruff..the King is the highest Card..and all other Cards follow in preheminency according to the number of the Pips. 1755in Connoisseur No. 60. 357 A gamester's mind is a mere pack of cards, and has no impressions beyond the pips and the Four Honours. 1865Compl. Domino-Player 12 When one has played all his dominoes out, he counts the number of pips in the other's hand. 1880Browning Dram. Idylls, Pietro 438 Fling..Golden dice..Note what sum the pips present!
†b. fig. In allusive phrases: A step, degree. two and thirty, a pip (peep) out: an allusion to the game of cards called ‘one-and-thirty’. (In quot. 1652, A very small piece, a ‘scrap’.) Obs.
α1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 33 Was it fit for a seruant to vse his master so, being perhaps..two and thirty, a peepe out? 1620Middleton Chaste Maid i. ii. 63 He's but one peep above a serving-man. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry ii. ii. D iij b, You thinke, because you serue my Ladyes mother, are 32 yeeres old which is a peepe out, you know. 1652Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples ii. 11 One who had stolen but a peepe of Sausage. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 409 How many are above one and thirty, (a Peep out) in their Estates, before they come to their one and twenty in yeares? 1693Humours Town 96 The Alderman is a Peep higher.
2. A spot or speck; spec. a small spot on the skin; a spot on a spotted dress fabric; pl. specks appearing to dance before the eye. Now dial.
1676Worlidge Cyder 157 Pippins..taking their name from the small spots or pips that..appear on the sides of the Apple. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Pips,..the spots on playing cards, dominoes, and women's dresses. 1881Oxfordsh. Gloss., Pips, small spots on the skin. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Pips.
3. a. Gardening. Each single blossom of a clustered inflorescence (usually, the corolla only), esp. in the cowslip and polyanthus; also dial. a small blossom in general.
1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty iv. 23 The pips, as the gardiners call them. 1764E. Moxon Eng. Housew. (ed. 9) 147 To make Cowslip Wine. Take two pecks of peeps, and four gallons of water, put [etc.]. 1772Foote Nabob ii. Wks. 1799 II. 303 The polyanthuses..for pip, colour, and eye, I defy the whole parish..to match 'em. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 125 Bees in every peep did try. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2). Peeps, the flowers of cowslips detached from the calix. 1847J. W. Loudon Amateur Gard. 93/2 The heads and pips of flowers should be large and smooth. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 307 A tea being made of the dried flowers or ‘pips’ [of the cowslip].
b. Trade-name for the central part of an artificial flower.
4. Each of the rhomboidal segments of the surface of a pine-apple, corresponding to one blossom of the compound inflorescence from which the fruit is developed.
1833Penny Cycl. I. 490/1 The Pine Apple..what gardeners call the pips, that is to say, the rhomboidal spaces into which the surface is divided. 1840Ibid. XVIII. 164/2 In the Malay Archipelago it..sports into a variety called the double pine-apple, each pip of its fruit growing into a branch bearing a new pine-apple. 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 764 The pine-apple is not..one fruit, but a collection of many, what are called the pips being the true fruit.
5. Mil. A star or one of a group of (up to three) stars worn on the epaulettes by officers as an indication of rank. Also transf.
1917W. Owen Let. 23 Nov. (1967) 509, I shall soon be putting up another pip. 1918― Let. 15 July (1967) 564, I still wear one pip because nobody knows whether I am Lieut. or not. 1919Chamber's Jrnl. Jan. 43/2 Thomas, his senior by one ‘pip’ in the battery. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 315, I wrote the usual trimmin's..an' what his captain had said about Bert bein' recommended for a pip. 1954[see gong2 2]. 1972P. Driscoll Wilby Conspiracy (1973) xxii. 284 The authority of the two pips shining on his shoulders. 1973D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town vi. 103 Despite the extra couple of pips he'd given me, I didn't feel happy about my new command. 1978M. Kenyon Deep Pocket i. 12 The desiccated arsehole-creeper in his new silver pips and braid.
6. a. A sharp, narrow, and usu. small spike or deflection on a line displayed on the screen of a cathode-ray tube.
1944Radar Apr. 30/1 Signals appear as pips, or deflections, on the luminous trace. Ibid., The range of a reflecting object is indicated by the distance of the pip from the base of the trace. 1949D. G. C. Luck Frequency Modulated Radar vii. 299 As the generator is tuned toward either limit of the sweep, these pips may be seen to approach one another on the oscilloscope. 1950Jrnl. Appl. Physics XXI. 59/2 If the output frequency times three is exactly equal to the input frequency, the two pips on the scope should coincide. 1963G. M. B. Dobson Exploring Atmosphere viii. 138 The distance of the ‘pip’ from the starting line will be a measure of the time between the signal which started the beam moving and that which produced the ‘pip’.
b. A voltage pulse.
1946Electronic Engin. XVIII. 145/3 Use was made of a crystal oscillator which generated both time-base recurrence and calibration pips. 1947Ibid. XIX. 9/2 The time base can be synchronised by applying a negative pip to the first grid of V5.
7. attrib., as pip card (sense 1).
1903Burlington Mag. Dec. 246/1 He persuaded him..to make the exchange with twelve figure and fourteen pip cards. 1977Jrnl. Playing-Card Soc. May 30 The suit symbols and the denominations are shown as miniature cards of traditional form in the upper right-hand corner on the pip cards.
▪ III. pip, n.3
[app. a shortened form of pippin; in sense 2, perhaps associated with pip n.2 Not in Johnson, Ash, Walker, Webster 1828. In Todd 1818, as a children's word; but in use with fruit-growers in 1797. (The Sc. paip, pape, of earlier use, is not applied to the seeds of apples or oranges.)]
†1. Short for pippin, the apple. Obs.
In quots. attributed as a cry to Irish costermongers.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 25 He cries oh rare, to heare the Irishmen Cry pippe, fine pippe, with a shrill accent. 1600Dekker Fortunatus Wks. 1873 I. 152 (Cry of Irish costermonger) Buy any Apples, feene Apples of Tamasco, feene Tamasco peepins: peeps feene. 1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 339 Hee whose throat squeakes like a treble Organ and speakes as smal and shril, as the Irish-men crie pip, fine pip.
2. a. The common name for the seeds of fleshy fruits, as the apple, pear, orange, etc. Cf. pippin 1.
1797Billingsley Agric. Somerset ix. 124 The favourite apple..is the Court of Wick Pippin; taking its name from the spot where it was first produced. It originated from the pip or seed of the golden pippin. 1808Vancouver Agric. Devon 236 By the end of the sixth year from the time of sowing the pips. 1818Todd, Pip..a kernel in an apple. So children call kernels. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. Poems (1857) 302 We divide This apple of life, and cut it through the pips. 1876World V. No. 120. 13 The Queen of Navarre gave the original orange pip to her gardener in 1421. 1883Evang. Mag. Oct. 461 In Blackberry and Raspberry..the ‘endocarp’ in both cases is the hard centre, commonly called the ‘pip’, and ignorantly the ‘seed’.
b. Phr. to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak (and variants): to exact the maximum payment from (someone), orig. with allusion to Germany's indemnity after the war of 1914–18 (see quot. 1918).
1918Cambridge Daily News 11 Dec. 3/2 Sir Eric Geddes followed up his big meeting at the Guildhall on Monday night by addressing another crowded assembly in the large hall at the Beaconsfield Club on Tuesday night... Dealing with the question of indemnities, Sir Eric said: The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed—until the pips squeak. My only doubt is not whether we can squeeze hard enough, but whether there is enough juice. 1929W. S. Churchill World Crisis: Aftermath ii. 47 One Minister, reproached with lack of vim, went so far as to say ‘We would squeeze the German lemon till the pips squeaked.’ 1933Radio Times 14 Apr. 75/1 The Lloyd George Coalition Government..elected..on a programme of hanging the Kaiser, squeezing Germany until the pips squeaked. 1940S. Spender Backward Son 64 A clarion call to the readers of the Daily Sketch to make Germany pay till the pips squeak. 1973P. O'Donnell Silver Mistress v. 93 We run an inquiry on a client, and we don't squeeze him till the pips squeak... We just pressure him. 1973Times 12 Nov. 19/3 In opposition..[Labour] would tax the upper working class until the pips squeak. 1978Times 15 Sept. 3/3 When Mr Singer was asked how the extra money was being found, he said: ‘The pips are squeaking.’
Add:3. Something remarkably good; an excellent person or thing. Freq. a pip. Cf. pippin n. 3 b. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1928Hecht & MacArthur Front Page ii. 76, I got the whole story from Jacobi and I got it exclusive... That's right, it's a pip. 1950New Yorker 14 Oct. 120/2 A pip of a shiner. 1972Kent Life July 34/1 It is a pip of a part that stands head and shoulders over the other characters that Pinero thought fit to include in his cast. 1987New Yorker 9 Feb. 92/3 He has written a pip of a meeting between Jerry and the therapist in an empty house.
▪ IV. pip, n.4
Used for p in telephone communications and in the oral transliteration of code messages, as in pip emma, for p.m. (= post meridiem: see P II). Also occas. in colloq. use.
1913Signalling (Imperial Army Series) ii. 19 The letters T, A, B, M, S, P and V will be called toc, ack, beer, emma, esses, pip, and vic respectively, so as to distinguish them phonetically from letters of similar sound. 1915[see emma]. 1917[see ack]. 1926[see emma]. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 98 Other artillery terms which spread were O pip (for ‘observation post’). 1930E. Raymond Jesting Army iii. ii. 292 The working parties parade under the trees at nine o'clock pip emma... At three o'clock ac emma they will return. 1969[see emma]. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xv. 350 The second hand was just sweeping up to 9:40 pip-emma.
▪ V. pip, n.5
[Echoic.]
A short, high-pitched sound, esp. one produced electronically; spec. (a) one broadcast as a time signal; (b) one transmitted over a telephone line as a signal.
1907G. B. Shaw Major Barbara iii. 292 Sarah (touching Lady Britomart's ribs with her finger tips and imitating a bicycle horn) Pip! pip! 1929B.B.C. Year-bk. 1930 406 G.T.S. = Greenwich Time Signal, which takes the form of a broadcast by electrical contact of the last six seconds before the hour, the ‘beat’ of each second being represented by a sharp ‘pip’. 1930Prof. Papers Inst. P.O. Electr. Engineers No. 135. 41 There is an advantage in giving the time intimation automatically and this is being done experimentally..by means of a ‘pip’ signal. 1938F. B. Young Dr. Bradley Remembers i. 29 The six ‘pips’ of the time-signal sounded and the Weather Forecast began. 1946Electronic Engin. XVIII. 360/2 (Advt.), The warning is given in the form of a 1,000 c.p.s. ‘pip’ on the loud speaker lasting 1/8 second. 1951‘E. Crispin’ Long Divorce xiv. 172 There are the pips... Quick, or it'll be another three minutes. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio xii. 219 One of the most characteristic sounds of early electronic works has been the use of short bursts of tone at various frequencies, sounding like a series of pips. 1967O. Lancaster With Eye to Future i. 1 With the six pips, conversation..faded away..as the announcer..began to summarize his disastrous bulletin. 1972Radio Times 6 Jan. 5/3 Listeners may have noticed a change in the Greenwich Time Signals broadcast since January 1. Instead of six equal pips, the signal since 1924, there are five equal pips followed by a longer one lasting half a second. The exact time is signalled by the beginning or ‘leading edge’ of the long pip. 1973Times 21 Sept. 5/3, I believe the call was a long-distance one. The pips are louder..if the call is local. 1977J. Wilson Making Hate xiii. 155 He raced back to the telephone in the hall. When the pips went..he could hardly get his twopence in the slot.
▪ VI. † pip, v.1 Obs.
Also 6 pyppe, 7 pipp.
[f. pip n.1]
trans. a. To remove the ‘pip’ or scale from the tongue of (a fowl): see pip n.1 b. To affect with the pip.
1530Palsgr. 658/1, I pyppe a henne or a capon, I take the pyppe from them, je prens la pepie dune geline or dung chapon. Your hennes shall never waxe faste tyll they be pypped. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxiii. 102 From which their tunes but pip their tungs and then they hang the wing.
▪ VII. pip, v.2
[In sense 1, app. var. of peep with shortened vowel: cf. dial. ship, kip, etc. Sense 2 is perhaps a distinct word and onomatopœic: cf. chip.]
1. intr. To chirp as a young bird: = peep v.1
1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 279/1 Pipare, to cackle or cluck as a hen, to pip, to pule as a hawk. 1659Hoole Comenius' Vis. World (1777) 4 The chicken pippeth. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech., Digress. 374 To hear the Chick Pip or Cry in the Egg, before the Shell be broken. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. vii, Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper?
2. a. trans. To crack (the shell of the egg), as a young bird when hatched. So pipped |pɪpt| ppl. a.2; ˈpipping vbl. n.
1879Tourgee Fool's Err. (1883) 233 If one ever pipped the shell. 1886P. Robinson Valley Teet. Trees 30 It is all very well for..the vernal pullet to be impudent because it pipped its shell when the crocuses were abloom. 1901Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 717/1 Gigantic incubators..literally vomiting forth their flocks of twittering little creatures at pipping-time. 1953N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xviii. 161 The parents would stop shifting and turning an egg when it is pipped. Ibid., In most of the pipped eggs there is a line of cracks around the obtuse pole. 1962J. C. Welty Life of Birds xvi. 316/2 The first step in hatching is the puncturing, or ‘pipping’, of the shell by the chick with its outwardly-pressed egg tooth. 1972L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag vii. 162 This egg will hatch tonight. See, the large end is already cracked and pipped. 1972Sci. Amer. Aug. 30/1 The ducklings begin to pip their eggs... As the eggs are being pipped the female clucks... When the pipping is completed, she drops back to..four calls per minute.
b. transf. To give birth. colloq.
1973Times 27 Aug. 5/8 ‘I say, Aubrey, has your wife pipped yet?’ I assumed he meant had she had her baby.
▪ VIII. pip, v.3 colloq. or slang.
[f. pip n.2 (or n.3), taken fig. as = small ball: cf. pill v.2]
1. a. trans. To blackball; to defeat, beat; to hit with a shot.
The examples in the second set owe something to the phr. to pip at the post (see sense c below).
1880A. H. Huth Buckle I. v. 252 If Buckle were pipped [at the Club election], they would do the same for every clergyman put up. 1891Pall Mall G. 1 Oct. 1/1 Cycling..an exciting struggle at top speed resulted in A. C. Edwards just pipping A. T. Mole for first place. 1900Westm. Gaz. 13 Mar. 2/2 Pipped, by Jove! At 9.25 as we were advancing I got a bullet through the leg. 1916E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 226 Only yesterday poor Hugh Blackstone was pipped right at my side, and he lasted only ten minutes. 1917E. F. Wood Notebk. of Intelligence Officer x. 182 In that bit of trench, sir, you must bend over as you go. It is enfiladed by an enemy sniper. He ‘pipped’ one of our fellows through the head there yesterday. 1927A. Christie Big Four xi. 141 That's my solution—Gilmour Wilson got pipped by mistake. 1932Wodehouse Hot Water i. 19 Soup Slattery showed Mr. Carlisle the scar..where a quick-drawing householder of Des Moines, Iowa, had pipped him a couple of years back when he was visiting at his residence. 1950Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 70 The remaining Tommy synonyms [for ‘wounded’] are pipped, especially by a bullet whether of rifle, revolver, or machine-gun; to stop one [etc.].
1930Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Jan. 35/1 He [sc. a race-horse] just pipped Baverarrack..for third place. 1964Engineering 21 Aug. 221/3 Dick Bertram.., in Lucky Moppie, was pipped into second place by an error of navigation. 1976Scottish Daily Express 24 Dec. 15/4 As anchorman, Ian Hutcheon did a magnificent job, shooting a final 71 to pip the Japs and tie for the individual section. 1977R.A.F. News 11–24 May 18/4 The host station..were pipped 6–3 by Brampton.
b. To reject or disqualify; to fail (a candidate) in an examination. Of a candidate: to fail (an examination).
1908A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger i. i. 31 ‘I had forgotten. Your examination?’ George half turned away. The bitterest moment of a sad day was come. He growled: ‘Pipped.’ 1912F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iii. 85 Olympia was exaggerating... I wasn't going blind. I was only pipped for active service. 1973Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 15/1 School-leavers who were unfortunate enough to pip all or some of their O or A levels will have been seeking a second chance without having to return to school.
c. To anticipate or forestall (someone) in a particular activity, circumstance, etc.; spec. in phr. to pip at (or on) the post, to defeat by a narrow margin at the last moment; also ellipt.
1924Wodehouse Ukridge iii. 67 Bad luck his getting pipped on the post like that. 1939‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife xix. 272 Well, Georgia, pipped at the post, aren't you? 1949‘E. C. R. Lorac’ Still Waters ii. 27, I pipped him at the post. His instructions must have limited him. 1959‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade xviii. 245 He was head over heels about the bewitching Amalfi, and got pipped on the post by Eduardo. 1969Times 25 Nov. 23/1 Shell..now have a record eight managing directors; BP..have just been pipped at the post—they have only seven. 1970‘A. Gilbert’ Death wears Mask iii. 4 You won't be able to buy me that ring, after all, because it's sold. Someone's pipped you on the post. 1974Times 8 Apr. 13/1 Schools television started in 1957, when Associated Rediffusion pipped the BBC by starting a service in which 80 schools took part.
2. intr. To die. Also with out.
1913A. Lunn Harrovians ii. 31 ‘Is he Irish?’ ‘He don't seem to know. Father who's pipped was Irish. His mother's pipped too.’ 1920R. Macaulay Potterism iii. i. 110, I think it's simply rotten pipping out. I like being alive.
▪ IX. pip, v.4
[f. pip n.5]
intr. To make a short, high-pitched sound. So ˈpipping ppl. a.
1938D. Smith Dear Octopus i. 14 Just see if Hilda's still telephoning... Tell her it's elevenpence every time it pips. 1958Listener 18 Sept. 418/1, I could hear morse pipping and the loudspeaker blaring away. 1972Jazz & Blues Oct. 5/1 A throbbing low register clarinet solo by Ben Richardson..ends rather oddly with some ‘pipping’ high notes like the BBC time signal. 1976A. Price War Game i. 61 The phone pipped for more money and he..fed the last of his change into it. 1978R. Holles Spawn iv. 28 People passing in cars pipped and waved although they hardly knew you.
▪ X. pip
obs. Sc. variant of pipe n.2 |