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Noun: pip  pip
  1. A small hard seed found in some fruits
     
  2. A mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
    - spot
     
  3. A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
    - blip, radar target
     
  4. [Brit] A short high-pitched sound
     
  5. [informal] A minor nonspecific ailment
     
  6. A disease of poultry
Verb: pip (pipped,pipping)  pip
  1. [informal] Kill by firing a gun
    - shoot, smoke [N. Amer, informal], blow away [informal]
     
  2. Strike with a missile from a weapon
    - shoot, hit
     
  3. [Brit, informal] Defeat narrowly or at the last minute

Derived forms: pips, pipping, pipped

Type of: ailment, animal disease, complaint, ill, injure, kill, mark, marker, marking, radar echo, seed, wound

Part of: playing card

Encyclopedia: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred