Pep vs. Pip
Pep and Pip Definitions
Pep
Energy and high spirits; vim
"The duchess is full of pep, that particularly American word that expresses precisely her energy and gaiety" (Suzy Menkes).
Pip
The small seed of a fruit, as that of an apple or orange.
Pep
To bring energy or liveliness to; invigorate
The good news pepped him up.
Pip
A dot indicating a unit of numerical value on dice or dominoes.
Pep
(transitive) To inject with energy and enthusiasm.
Pip
A mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card.
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Pep
Energy, high spirits.
Pip
A spot or speck.
Pep
Liveliness and energy;
This tonic is guaranteed to give you more pep
Pip
A rootstock of certain flowering plants, especially the lily of the valley.
Pip
Any of the small segments that make up the surface of a pineapple.
Pip
(Informal) A shoulder insignia indicating the rank of certain officers, as in the British Army.
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Pip
See blip.
Pip
A short, high-pitched radio signal.
Pip
A disease of birds, characterized by a thick mucous discharge that forms a crust in the mouth and throat.
Pip
(Slang) A minor unspecified human ailment.
Pip
To wound or kill with a bullet.
Pip
To defeat.
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Pip
To blackball.
Pip
To break through (the shell) in hatching. Used chiefly of birds.
Pip
To peep or chirp.
Pip
Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
Pip
Of humans, a disease, malaise or depression.
Pip
(obsolete) A pippin, seed of any kind.
Pip
(UK) A seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple.
Apple pips are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.
Pip
Something or someone excellent, of high quality.
Pip
P in RAF phonetic alphabet.
Pip
One of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.
Pip
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.
Pip
A spot; a speck.
Pip
A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of radar waves reflected from an object; a blip.
Pip
A piece of rhizome with a dormant shoot of the lily of the valley plant, used for propagation
Pip
One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.
Pip
The smallest price increment between two currencies in foreign exchange (forex) trading.
Pip
(transitive) To remove the pips from.
Peel and pip the grapes.
Pip
To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
Pip
To hit with a gunshot
The hunter managed to pip three ducks from his blind.
Pip
To peep, to chirp
Pip
(avian biology) To make the initial hole during the process of hatching from an egg
Pip
A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
Pip
A seed, as of an apple or orange.
Pip
One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc.
Pip
To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.
To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg.
Pip
A disease of poultry
Pip
A minor nonspecific ailment
Pip
A small hard seed found in some fruits
Pip
A mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
Pip
A radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface
Pip
Kill by firing a missile
Pip
Hit with a missile from a weapon
Pip
Defeat thoroughly;
He mopped up the floor with his opponents
