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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.
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Pip

A mark indicating the suit or numerical value of a playing card.

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.
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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.

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.

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

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