pip¹ /pip/

1. A small hard seed or fruitlet in a fleshy fruit
2. A pippin (obsolete)

pipˈless adjective

pippˈy adjective

pip² /pip/

A short, high-pitched signal analogous in sound to the word ‘pip’, esp as used in radio signals, the speaking clock, payphones, etc

the pips (informal)

The six pips broadcast by the BBC, made up of five short (counting down from 55 to 59 seconds) and one long (marking the start of the new minute and hour)

pip³ /pip/ (slang)

1. To defeat narrowly
2. To blackball
3. To pluck, plough, reject, or fail in an examination
4. To foil, thwart, get the better of
5. To hit with a bullet, etc
6. To wound
7. To kill

To die (esp with out; archaic)

pipped at the post

Defeated at the point when success seemed certain, or at the last moment

pip⁴ /pip/, earlier peep or peepe (Shakespeare) /pēp/

1. A spot on dice, cards or dominoes
2. A star as a mark of rank (informal)
3. A speck
4. (on a radar screen) indication, eg spot of light, of the presence of an object
5. A single blossom or corolla in a cluster (botany)

a pip (or peepe) out

1. One in excess of the total of pips aimed at in the old card game of one-and-thirty, hence, having overshot one's mark
2. Tipsy

pip⁵ /pip/

1. Roup in poultry, etc
2. An ailment or distemper vaguely imagined
3. Syphilis (slang)
4. Spleen, hump, disgust, offence (informal)

To affect with the pip

give someone the pip (informal)

To annoy or offend someone

pip⁶ /pip/

To chirp, as a young bird does

• I'll see you far first
• I'll see you farther first
• ill-spent
• ill-starred
• ill success
• ill temper
• ill-tempered
• ill-temperedly
• illth
• I'll thank him to
• I'll thank you to
• illths
• ill-timed
• ill-treat
• ill-treated
• ill-treating
• ill-treatment
• ill-treats
• I'll trouble you to
• ill turn
• ill turns
• illude
• illuded
• illudes
• illuding