pip

1. (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.obsolete

2. (obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.Examples: "Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste."; "On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, Vitis vinifera Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, Vitis silvestris Gmel., is uncertain. Its pips can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan."UKobsolete

3. (US, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, of high quality.Examples: "She sure is a pip, that one. You need company?"UScolloquial

4. (British, dated, World War I, signalese) P in RAF phonetic alphabet.BritishWorld-War-Idated

1. (transitive) To remove the pips from.Examples: "Peel and pip the grapes."transitive

1. (military, public service) One of the stylised version of the Bath star worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a soldier or a fireman.

1. (transitive) To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin.Examples: "He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post."; "Arteta faced much scrutiny after Spurs pipped the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number Conte deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm."; "Some 28 percent said he was the best performer, pipping DeSantis by one point"Synonyms: pip to the posttransitive

2. (transitive) To hit with a gunshot.Examples: "The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind."transitive

1. (intransitive) To peep, to chirp.intransitive

2. (ornithology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg.