| 释义 |
pip-pip-pip Teleph.
[f. pip n.5]
(The sound of) the three consecutive pips used as a time signal in the ‘speaking clock’ service and to indicate the lapse of time during a trunk call.
1936Discovery Oct. 315/2 Thus ‘At the third stroke’ is taken from one groove, ‘it will be’ from another, ‘eleven o'clock’ from another disc, and the sound ‘pip-pip-pip’ from a fourth. 1938D. Smith Dear Octopus i. 12 Don't go on talking after the pip pip pip, because they charge you at once. |