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pip-pip
[Echoic.]
1. A repeated, short, high-pitched sound, spec. that made by a motor- or bicycle-horn; also, the horn itself.
1904Kipling Traffics & Discov. 324 Children sat..on the damp doorsteps to shout ‘pip-pip’ at the stranger. 1907Shaw Major Barbara iii. 292 Sarah (touching Lady Britomart's ribs with her finger tips and imitating a bicycle horn) Pip! pip! 1909Westm. Gaz. 15 May 3/2 She [sc. a little girl] had motor-cars with real pip-pips. 1979N. Freeling Widow xx. 124 There was a timid little pip-pip at the front door bell. 1979J. Scott Angels in your Beer xviii. 187 Marianne walked to the Ferrari... She..sounded an impatient pip pip on the horn.
2. slang. A substitute for ‘good-bye’. (In quot. 1907 as a defiant retort.)
1907Mr. Punch Awheel 93 Cyclist... ‘Nice crowd out this morning!’ Rural Policeman..‘Yes, an' yer can't do with 'em! If yer 'ollers at 'em, they honly turns round and says, ‘Pip, pip’! 1920Wodehouse Damsel in Distress x. 129 ‘Well, it's worth trying,’ said Reggie. ‘I'll give it a whirl. Toodleoo!’ ‘Good-bye.’ ‘Pip-pip!’ Reggie withdrew. 1931E. F. Benson Mapp & Lucia iii. 56 Mr. Woolgar..did not say ‘So long’ or ‘Pip-pip’. 1951Wodehouse Old Reliable xv. 169 Hello, Smedley. Pip-pip, Lord Topham. 1973G. Sims Hunters Point iii. 22 The nine-day ‘British Week’ had ended... Fisherman's Wharf had been buzzing with ‘Cheerio, pip pip and smashing’ voices. 1978M. Butterworth X marks Spot iii. iii. 158 ‘Pip pip, laddie.’ He set off. |