Definitions for pips

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IPA: /pɪp/

Pips is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in pips (ipps).

Definitions for pips

noun

1. one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
2. each of the small segments into which the surface of a pineapple is divided.
3. Informal. metal insigne of rank on the shoulders of commissioned officers.
4. Horticulture. an individual rootstock of a plant, especially of the lily of the valley. a portion of the rootstock or root of several other plants, as the peony.
5. Veterinary Pathology. a contagious disease of birds, especially poultry, characterized by the secretion of a thick mucus in the mouth and throat.
6. Facetious. any minor or unspecified ailment in a person.
7. a small seed, especially of a fleshy fruit, as an apple or orange.
8. Also called pipperoo. Informal. someone or something wonderful:
9. blip (def 1).
10. a male given name, form of Philip.

verb (used with object)

1. to crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird.
2. to blackball.
3. to defeat (an opponent).
4. to shoot, especially to wound or kill by a gunshot.

verb (used without object)

1. to peep or chirp.
2. (of a young bird) to break out from the shell.

Origin of pips

First recorded in 1590-1600; earlier peep; origin uncertain

Examples for pips

This is home to them, and just to look at Tellus would give them the pip.

But it took another 20 years for his son, Owen “pip” Brennan, Jr. to make the Krewe synonymous with Mardi Gras.

George Eliot or Thackeray could have described the weakness of pip.

The study of pip is meant to indicate that with all his virtues pip was a snob.

pip walking down the hallway of her adolescence sporting unromantic hair.

"I give not the pip of an apple for king or for noble," cried the serf passionately.

At eighty-five seconds, he corrected slightly to center the pip.

And from her silence pip drew the most desperate and harrowing conclusions.

And then there was pip, the boy in the novel who also falls in love with her.

Why, in that respect they're all Miss Biffins to the audience, pip.